Maithakari
{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people of Queensland}}
{{see also|Maithakari language}}
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The Maikathari (Mayi-Thakurti) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Country
The Maithakari had, according to ethnologist Norman Tindale, approximately {{convert|3,400|mi2|km2}} of tribal territory extending from the Williams River and Cloncurry. Running north, its boundaries touched Canobie on the Cloncurry River, and extended east to where Julia Creek joins the Cloncurry, and also to Mount Fort Bowen. They were also present at Dalgonally.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=180}}
Social organisation and rites
They did not practise either circumcision or subincision.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=180}}
Alternative names
- Maiðakuri
- Maiðakui
- Maidhagudi, Maitakudi
- Mayatagoorri
- Mythugadi
- Majadhagudi
- Mythuggadi
- Mythaguddi, Mitagurdi, Mittagurdi, Mitagurdi, Mitakoodi, Mittakoodi
- Mitrogoordi, Mitroogoordi{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=180}}
Notes
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=Citations=
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Sources
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- {{Cite book| chapter = The Mouth of the Leichardt River
| last = Armit | first = W. E.
| year = 1886
| title = The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent
| editor-last = Curr | editor-first = Edward Micklethwaite | editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr
| volume = 2 | pages = 300–305
| publisher = J. Ferres | location = Melbourne
| chapter-url = https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf
}}
- {{Cite book| title = The native tribes of south-east Australia
| last = Howitt | first = Alfred William
| author-link = Alfred William Howitt
| year = 1904
| publisher = Macmillan
| url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319345/AU0094_NativeTribes_SE_Australia.pdf
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Notes on some Australian tribes
| last = Palmer | first = Edward
| author-link = Edward Palmer (Australian politician)
| journal = Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
| year = 1884 | volume = 13 | pages = 276–347
| doi = 10.2307/2841896 | jstor = 2841896
| url = https://zenodo.org/record/1820630 }}
- {{Cite book| chapter = The Cloncurry River
| last = Palmer | first = Edward
| author-link = Edward Palmer (Australian politician)
| year = 1886
| title = The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent
| editor-last = Curr | editor-first = Edward Micklethwaite | editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr
| volume = 2 | pages = 330–339
| publisher = J. Ferres | location = Melbourne
| chapter-url = https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf
}}
- {{Cite book| title = Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines
| last = Roth | first = W. E.
| author-link = Walter Roth
| year = 1897
| publisher = Edmund Gregory, Government Printer | location = Brisbane
| url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924029890328
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia
| last =Sharp | first =Lauriston R.
| author-link =Lauriston Sharp
| journal = Oceania
| date = March 1939 | volume =9 | issue =3| pages = 254–275
| doi =10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x | jstor = 40327744
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Maithakari (QLD)
| 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 Press
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/maithakari.htm
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}
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