What Mob Is That?

Buluwai


Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia places the Buluwai (alternatively, Buluwandji, Bulwandji, Buluwandyi, Bulwandyi, Bulwanydji, Bulway) rainforest people on around 520 square kilometres of territory on the Atherton Tableland, with the Djabugay as their northern neighbours, the Yirrgay to the east, the Muluridji to the west), the Ngatjan to the southwest) and Yidindji to the southeast). Their territory extended north to Kuranda and south- to around Tinaroo, encompassing localities including Speewah, Davies Creek, and Emerald Creek.

The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia places that area in the northern portion of Djirbalgnan country. Buluwai descendants now identify with the Djabugay people, though some maintain a separate identity.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church established a mission on Buluwai lands, calling it Mona Mona Mission (1930-1962),

Norman Tindale recorded their language during the 1938-1939 Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition.
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