Gadjalivia

The Gadjalivia were an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. They are now regarded as extinct.

Language

Arthur Capell classified the Gadjalivia language (Gudjälavia) as a dialect of Burarra.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated that their lands encompassed some 200 square miles (520 km²), inland to the west of the Blyth River.

History

Following a drastic reduction in their numbers, remnants of the tribe, surviving around the Csdell River, are said to have been assimilated into the Nagara.

Alternative names

• Gajalivia
• Gudjalibi
• Gudalavia
• Gudjaliba
• Gadjalibi
• Gadjalibir

Notes

Sources

• Berndt, Ronald Murray; Berndt, Catherine Helen (1951). Sexual behaviour in Western Arnhem Land. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology. Johnson Reprint Corporation, New Haven.
• Capell, A. (June 1942). "Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia". Oceania. 12 (4): 364–392. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1942.tb00365.x. JSTOR 40327959.
• Keen, Ian (December 1982). "How Some Murngin Men Marry Ten Wives: The Marital Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Structures". Man. New Series. 17 (4): 620–642. doi:10.2307/2802037. JSTOR 2802037.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Gadjalivia (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020.