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Winduwinda

The Winduwinda were an indigenous Australian people of Queensland.

The name Winduwinda, like that of the Wik-Munkan, is used to refer to either to a single tribe or an aggregation of approximately 12 tribes.

Languages named after Winduwinda creak are

According to Norman Tindale, the Winduwinda's tribal territory covered some 1,100 square miles (2,800 km2) in the area east of Duyfken Point over to the Archer River. Their inland extension reached to the headwaters of the Embley River.

How one defines the social structure of the Winduwinda depends on whether one takes Winduwinda to refer to one tribe composed of hordes, or whether several of these bands were actually distinct tribes. Tindale mentions only two hordes for the Winduwinda in a strict sense, namely:

He then outlines the twelve hordes or tribes - the distinction is unclear - associated with the Winduwinda:

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 190

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