The Bibulman (Pibelmen) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the southwestern region of Western Australia, a subgroup of the Noongar.
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Name
Their autonym may be related to the word for stingray, pibilum.[1]
Country
Pibelmen lands comprised around 3,100 square miles (8,000 km2) of territory in the southwest. They were concentrated around the Lower Blackwood River and the hills between the Blackwood and the Warren River. Their eastern flank ran to Gardner River and Broke Inlet. The Scott River was also a part of their territory. Their inland extension ran to Manjimup and Bridgetown.[1]
Alternative names
- Pepelman, Peopleman, Piblemen
- Bibulman, Bibulmun, Bibudmoun, Bibbulmun, Bebleman
- Bibilum
- Meeraman (Koreng exonym)
- Murram (Menang exonym)
- Bajongwongi (language name)[1]
Some words
- mammon (father)
- nungun (mother)
- jangar (white man)
- dwardar (tame dog)
- yakine (wild dog)
- yonger (kangaroo)
- wager (emu)[2]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c Tindale 1974, p. 255.
- ^ Gifford 1886, p. 362.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Bates, Daisy (January–June 1914). "A Few Notes on Some South-Western Australian Dialects". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 44: 65–82. doi:10.2307/2843531. JSTOR 2843531.
- Gifford, Lord Edric Frederick (1886). "Lower Blackwood. Peopleman tribe" (PDF). In Curr, 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. 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 362–363.
- Mathews, R. H. (1910). "Notes on some tribes of Western Australia" (PDF). Queensland Geographical Journal. 25: 119–136.
- Nind, Scott (1831). "Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and Adjoining Country". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 1: 21–51. doi:10.2307/1797657. JSTOR 1797657.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Pibelmen (WA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
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