Djagaraga/Gudang
Although they do not appear on the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia, Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia places the Djagaraga on approximately 500 square kilometres, from the tip of Cape York to Fly Point, with their territory extending south to the Escape River on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula. They were also present on Mount Adolphus Island and Albany Island (Pabaju).
Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia and various other sources offer a variety of alternatives and exonyms, including the names of hordes that have subsequently been regarded as distinct entities.
- Gudang (the horde at Cape York; Kalau Lagau Ya: gudalnga ("mouthy"))
- Dyagaraga
- Pantyinamu
- Yatay (Kalau Lagau Ya: yadai "words")
- Kartalaiga (Kalau Lagau Ya: katalaiga: "green frog person"; the totem of the Kartalaiga was the green frog),
- Yagulle,
- Alauian (another name for Cape York horde)
- Unduyamo/ Unduamo/ Undooyamo (horde name)
- Kekosino, Kekoseno (horde at Escape River)
- Kokiliga (possibly a horde name),
- The Somerset tribe, after the settlement at Somerset was established in 1863.
They spoke Gudang, which, according to Kenneth L. Hale's classification, was one of ten languages of a northern Paman subgroup and had close relations with the Kaurareg people — who lived to their northwest —and their eastern coastal neighbours, the Unduyamo. Recent investigations of ceremonial rock structures throughout their territory suggest that the Djagaraga and Unduyamo may have functioned as ceremonial masters for initiation rites and increase rituals for other peoples in the area.
According to Dr. Creed, who accompanied an 1867 expedition around Australia's North Coast aboard the steamer Eagle, large numbers of the Djagaraga were killed off by the Yadhaykenu within living memory:
The natives at Cape York call themselves Gudaŋ. Westward of that tribe are the Kokiliga; south-west of the Gudaŋ are the Ondaima; and due south, are the Yaldaigan, who have almost exterminated the Gudaŋ.'
