Taribelang

See also: Taribelang language

The Taribelang are an Aboriginal Australian people of central Queensland.

Country

The Taribelang lived on 1,800 square miles (4,700 km²) of territory around Bundaberg, and inland to near Walla, and north as far as Baffle Creek. Their territory also extended along the lower reaches of the Burrum River.

Alternative names

• Tarribelung.
• Daribelum.
• Darpil.
• Goeng.
• Goreng Goreng.
• Wokkari.
• Dundaburra.
• Bunda.
• Bunda Bunda.
• Kalki.
• Kabi Kabi.
• Butchulla. (Meaning: People By The Sea)
• Ginginburra
• Burrang
• Balguin
• (?) Yawai.

Sources

• E33 Taribelang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Howitt, Alfred William (1889). On the organisation of Australian tribes (PDF). Vol. 18. Transactions of the. Royal Society of Victoria. pp. 96–137.
• Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
• Mathew, John (1910). Two representative tribes of Queensland with an inquiry concerning the origin of the Australian race (PDF). London: T. Fisher Unwin.
• Mathew, John (1914). "Note on the Gurang Gurang tribe of Queensland, with vocabulary". Proceedings of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Sydney. 14: 433–443.

• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Taribelang (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.