What Mob Is That?

Anggamudi/Ankamudi


The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia places the Anggamudi (alternatively, Ankamuti) on Cape York Peninsula's upper northwestern corner, Possession Island and the Endeavour Strait's western islands, with the Muralag on the islands to their north, the Yadhaigana/Yadhaykenu to their east, the Wuthathi to the southeast and the Teppathihi and Mpalitjanh as their southern neighbours. They spoke one of the Uradhi dialects.

In Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, they were the Ankamuti (alternatively Goomkoding), Yumakundji (probably a Yadhaigana term), Amkomti, Ondaima (possibly a horde name), Oiyamkwi (people on Red Island), and Apukwi (people of Crab Island), ranging over around 1800 square kilometres of western Cape York and the offshore islands. He placed their limits as Vrilya Point on the Gulf coast and the head of the Jardine River to the southeast, and regarded the Ankamuti and Nggamadi as separate entities; the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia conflates the two under Anggamudi.

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