Kalaako
{{see also|Kalaako language}}
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The Kalaako (Kalarko) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Country
Norman Tindale assigned the Kalaako tribe a reach extending over {{convert|24,000|mi2|km2}}, running up north from Green Patch and Scaddan to beyond Widgemooltha. It takes in Mount Monger, Golden Ridge, and Burbanks. Their eastern boundary lies some {{convert|15|mi}} west of Fraser Range, at a site mined for red ochre, known in the native language as Karkanja. Their western frontier is around the Bremer Range. The Johnston Lakes, Mount Holland, Barker Lake, Koongornin, Norseman and Salmon Gums all lie on what is Kalaako territory.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=243}}
The tribes neighbouring the Kalaako are, clockwise from the north, the Maduwongga, the Tjeraridjal (n.e.), the Ngadjunmaia, the Njunga due south; the Wudjari, the Njakinjaki, and the Kalamaia to the northeast.{{sfn|TTB|2016}}{{sfn|AIATSIS}}
Alternative names
- Kalarko
- Malba (Wudjari exonym, meaning they were circumcised and subincised{{cite web |url=https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collection/archives/language_groups/kalaako |title=Kalaako (WA) |author= |website=samuseum.sa.gov.au |publisher=South Australian Museum |access-date=24 December 2024}})
Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=243}}
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- {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia
| date = 14 May 2024
| publisher = AIATSIS
| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}
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- {{Cite web| title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries
| publisher = Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia
| url = https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf | url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160308145114/https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf
| date = September 2016 | archive-date = 8 March 2016
| ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}}
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Kalaako (WA)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| 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/kalaako.htm
| archive-date = 20 March 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kalaako.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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