Djowei

Indigenous Australian people

The Djowei are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Name

TBA.[1]

Country

The Djowei had an estimated 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2) of tribal land.country consisted of some 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) inland east of the Adelaide River. They lay between the Awarai and Djerimanga.[2]

Alternative names

  • Kumertuo,[2] a name shared with the Jawoyn.

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ Spencer 1914, pp. 277–278.
  2. ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 224.

Sources

  • Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Djowei (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.
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