Pilatapa
ThePilatapa(orPirlatapa,Birladapa,orBiladaba) were anIndigenous peopleofSouth Australia,now extinct.
Country
[edit]Norman Tindaleestimated that the Pilatapa had some 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) of tribal land, ranging northeast of the northern edges of theFlinders Rangesand to the north of theLake Fromedrainage basin.On the northwest they lived also around northwest to what is now theStrzelecki Desert LakesencompassingLake BlancheandBlanchewater.He placed their eastern extension at east toCallabonnaapproximately to the vicinity of Tilcha, while their southern boundaries were aroundWooltanaand Hamilton Creek.[1]
Language
[edit]Their language, Pilatapa, was closely related to theDiyari language.[2]
Social organisation and customs
[edit]Samuel Gason's account of the Pilatapa is integrated into a general description of theDiyari,Ngameni,YandruwandhaandYauraworka.[3] Male initiation rites involved circumcision, but excludedsubincision.[1]
Alternative names
[edit]- Pidlatapa
- Piladapa, Pilladapa, Pillitapa
- Billidapa
- Pulladapa
- Berluppa
- Pilliapp
- Jarikuna.(Wailpipejorativeexonym).[a]
- Yarrikuna[4]
Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^abcTindale 1974,p. 217.
- ^"L11: Pirlatapa".AIATSIS Collection.
- ^Gason 1895,pp. 167–176.
- ^Tindale 1974,pp. 133, 217.
Sources
[edit]- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia".AIATSIS.
- Gason, Samuel (1886)."From Mount Freeling to Pirigundi Lake"(PDF).InCurr, Edward Micklethwaite(ed.).The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent.Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 44–105.
- Gason, Samuel (1895). "Of the tribes, Dieyerie, Auminie, Yandrawontha,Yarawuarka, Pilladapa".Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.24:167–176.JSTOR2842215.
- Mathews, R. H.(1898)."Group divisions and initiation ceremonies of the Barkungee tribes".Journal of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.32:241–255.doi:10.5962/p.359301.S2CID259756893.
- Mathews, R. H.(January 1900). "Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines".Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.39(161): 78–91+93.JSTOR983545.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett(1974)."Pilatapa (SA)".Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names.Australian National University Press.ISBN978-0-708-10741-6.