Ngadjumaya


The Ngadjunmaia are an indigenous Australian people of Western Australia.

Country

Ngadjunmaia traditional land took in some, running south from Goddard Creek to Mount Ragged, Israelite Bay and Point Malcolm. The last named area was land they claim in contention with the Nyunga branch of the Wudjari. Their western borders were around Fraser Range. The eastern frontier was in the vicinity of Narethal and Point Culver. Mount Andrew and Balladonia were also part of Ngadjunmaia territory.

Curiosity

, in his account of the Elders Expedition, writes of a case of polydactyly he came across among a people of this region:-
A remarkable was observed among the women of the Frazer Range, one of whom had six perfect fingers on each hand and the same number of toes on each foot. Not only were these limbs perfectly formed, but the corresponding metacarpal and metatarsal bones were also perfect. Two of her brothers and a sister had, I was told, exactly the same deformity.

Norman Tindale identified the tribe here as the Ngadjunmaia.

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