Malintji

The Malintji were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation the Malintji are considered as having held a tribal territory of approximately 5,000 square miles (13,000 km²). They were the eastern neighbours of the Maiawali, living along Vergemont Creek, as far south as the vicinity of Jundah.

Social customs

The Malintji did not accept circumcision as part of their initiatory rites.

Alternative names

• Mullinchi, Mullinchie

Notes

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
• Mathews, R. H. (January 1900). "Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 29 (161): 78–91+93. JSTOR 983545.
• Mathews, R. H. (1905). Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of Queensland (PDF). Vol. 20. Queensland Geographical Society. pp. 49–75.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Malintji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.