Djowei

{{Short description|Indigenous Australian people}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2017}}

The Djowei are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Name

TBA.{{sfn|Spencer|1914|pp=277–278}}

Country

The Djowei had an estimated {{convert|1,700|mi2|km2}} of tribal land.country consisted of some {{convert|1,200|mi2|km2}} inland east of the Adelaide River. They lay between the Awarai and Djerimanga.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}}

Alternative names

  • Kumertuo,{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}} a name shared with the Jawoyn.

Notes

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=Citations=

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Sources

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  • {{Cite book| title = Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

| last = Spencer | first = Baldwin

| author-link = Walter Baldwin Spencer

| year = 1914

| publisher = Macmillan Publishers | location = London

| url = https://archive.org/download/cu31924028623076/cu31924028623076.pdf

}}

  • {{Cite book| chapter = Djowei (NT)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

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

| year = 1974

| publisher = Australian National University

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

| archive-date = 20 March 2020

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

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

}}

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{{Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory}}

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Category:Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory