Djerait

The Djerait language was said to have been mutually intelligible with that of the Mulluk-Mulluk who spoke a Daly river language, being as distant as ancient Greek dialects were to each other. And it was also said to be interchangeable with that spoken by the Pongaponga.{{sfn|Mackillop|1893|p=254}}

According to Norman Tindale, the Djerait occupied some {{convert|500|mi2|km2}} of tribal land on the north shores of Anson Bay, extending north to Point Blaze.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=223}} Neighbouring tribes were the Mulluk-Mulluk, the Madngella the Pongaponga and the Wogait.{{sfn|Mackillop|1893|p=254}}

The Jesuit missionary Donald Mackillop stated that the Djerait were a "small but intelligent tribe".{{sfn|Mackillop|1893|p=254}}

• yinnung delluk (bamboo nose stick){{sfn|Basedow|1907|p=9}}
• wennu (conical helmet smeared with pipe clay and topped with a bone to which an emu plume is affixed){{sfn|Basedow|1907|p=16}}
• barang (dangerous night spirit, noseless and with blanks for facial eyes, with two organs on the back for seeing at great distances){{sfn|Basedow|1907|p=18}}

• Tjerait
• Cherait, Cherite{{sfn|Mackillop|1893|p=254}}
• Sherait{{sfn|Basedow|1907|p=2}}
• Jeerite
• Scherits
• Tjiras{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}}
• Paperbark natives{{sfn|Basedow|1907|p=2}}

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• {{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia

| last = Basedow | first = Herbert

| author-link = Herbert Basedow

| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

| location = Adelaide

| year = 1907 | volume = 31 | pages = 1–62

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54644#page/13/mode/1up

}}

• {{Cite book| title = In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land

| last = Dahl | first = Knut

| author-link = Knut Dahl

| year = 1926

| publisher = P. Allen & Sons | location = London

| pages = 72–98

| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101538/1/Dahl_In%20savage_Australia_Complete_Reduced.pdf

}}

• {{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien

| last = Eylmann | first = Erhard

| year = 1908

| publisher = D.Reimer | location = Berlin

| url = https://archive.org/download/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = On the Manners, Customs, etc., of some Tribes of the Aborigines, in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia

| last = Foelsche | first = Paul

| author-link = Paul Foelsche

| journal = The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

| location = Adelaide

| year = 1895 | volume = 24 | pages = 190–198

| jstor = 2842215

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia

| last = Mackillop | first = Donald

| author-link = Mary MacKillop

| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

| location = Adelaide

| year = 1893 | volume = 17 | pages = 254–264

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54642#page/268/mode/1up

| format = PDF

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued)

| last = Stanner | first = W. E. H.

| author-link = William Edward Hanley Stanner

| journal = Oceania

| date = June 1934 | volume = 4 | issue = 4 | pages = 458–471

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00122.x | jstor = 27976164

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Djerait (NT)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| year = 1974

| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names

| publisher = Australian National University

| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/djerait.htm

| archive-date = 20 March 2020

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/djerait.htm

| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6

}}

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