The Pini or Nana, or more specifically the Birniridjara, also spelt Piniridjara and Biniridjara, are an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 year ...
people of
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
.
Country
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians ...
estimated Pini tribal lands to have encompassed approximately , west of
Lake Carnegie
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and the ephemeral
Lake Wells to its south. The land took in
Erlistoun Creek and
Lake Darlot
Lake Darlot is an ephemeral lake in the centre of Western Australia, lying approximately east-north-east of Leinster, and north of Leonora in the Goldfields-Esperance region. Its surface elevation is 434 metres above mean sea-level.
Discove ...
. Their northern frontier ran as far as Wongawol and Princes Range
Alternative names
* ''Piniiri''
* ''Piniridjara, Biniridjara''
* ''Pandjanu, Bandjanu'' (a toponym referring to what is known now as Bandya Station)
* ''Banjanu''
* ''Tjubun''
* ''Madutjara''. (
Nangatadjara
The Nangatadjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.
Country
Nangatadjara lands encompassed, according to Tindale, approximately . Their north-northeastern extension touched the Bailey, Virginia and Newland Ranges. They ...
exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym ) is a common, name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate them ...
).
* ''Jabura''. (
Tjalkadjara exonym meaning "northerners")
* ''Birni''
* ''Buranudjara'' (?)
* ''Nangaritjara'' (Tjalkadjara term for their language)
* ''Wordako'' (apparently indicating the language of the Lake Darlot people)
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia