The Djindubari , also written Jindoobarrie or Joondubarri , are or were an Aboriginal Australian people of southern Queensland, whose traditional lands were located on Bribie Island . They are thought to be a horde or clan of the Undanbi .
19-558: According to Tom Petrie , the word koala apparently derived from the Djindubari language , where it was called kulla . According to Archibald Meston the dialect itself was called Nhulla . Meston took down a wordlist of 300 items, together with 40 sentences to illustrate the grammar, in 1874. Generally Europeans described the Djindubari as 'a race of tall fine men and women. The women of Bribie Island generally were described by
38-612: A freestone monument to Thomas Petrie was unveiled by Sir William MacGregor , the Queensland Governor . It is outside the North Pine School of Arts in Petrie Place Park, 1014-1030 Anzac Avenue , Petrie ( 27°16′10″S 152°58′43″E / 27.2694°S 152.9786°E / -27.2694; 152.9786 ( Thomas Petrie monument ) ). On 19 June 2009, a new suburb in the area
57-648: A larger tribe, the Undanbi , which he describes as occupying some 900 square miles (2,300 km) of territory including the coastal land along Coolum Beach and Moreton Bay , extending from Noosa Heads southwards to the mouth of the Brisbane River , and inland for some ten miles, towards the Pine River district. They were also around the Glasshouse Mountains. The Djindubari formed part of
76-457: A member of Oxley's party in 1823 as: 'Tall, straight, well-formed women, far superior in beauty to the men; in fact, to any natives of this country I have ever seen, two of them as handsome as any white women.' Their population at the earliest colonial reckoning was estimated at around 66, roughly 30 men, 16 women and 20 children. The word for the Bora ceremonial rites of initiation on Bribie Island
95-678: A ten square mile (26 km ) section of the property in the Pine Creek district and named it Murrumba , an Aboriginal word meaning "good place" (possibly Turrbal or Yugarabul based on location ). Aboriginal people helped him to clear his land and build his farm buildings. On 26 June 1861, Thomas Petrie appeared at the proceedings of the Select Committee on the Native Police Force to give evidence. Petrie's views on Aboriginal people had hardened by this stage as he
114-403: A week, Flinders revisited the island, and it would appear no long term enmity had been aroused, since relations were described as friendly. Some Scottish sailors danced a Highland jig, while the Djindubari responded with a plaintive song that was 'musical and soothing'. Flinders remarked on their large heads, though derogatively characterising one as baboon-like. Two men of the tribe were victims of
133-689: The Duke of Edinburgh in 1868. In 1877 the Douglas ministry established Queensland's first Aboriginal reserve on Bribie Island with Petrie as its chief adviser and overseer, but the reserve was closed in 1878 by colonial secretary Palmer . Petrie died at Murrumba on 26 August 1910. He was buried in Lawnton Cemetery . He was survived by his wife (who died aged 90 on 30 September 1926) and by two sons and five daughters of their nine children. Though Murrumba had been reduced to 3000 acres (12 km )
152-479: The Gubbi Gubbi tribe . The islanders were described in the 1820s as being settled in fishing villages, composed of clusters of huts, some of them of substantial size, one being described as extending over 24 metres in length, and built with arches, rooms and passageways which, he added, 'would not have disgraced a European architect'. Matthew Flinders was the first European surveyor known to have landed on
171-578: The Maroochy River looking to exploit the large cedar growing there. At Petrie's Creek , he established a logging camp which was run by Aboriginal labour. At this camp, the Aboriginal workers requested that Petrie brand them with his logging symbol. This was done by using a piece of glass and then rubbing charcoal into the wound. He later surveyed a route from Cleveland to Eight Mile Plains . He also arranged for some Aboriginal people to welcome
190-496: The family kept the property until 1952. In 1910 the name of the North Pine district was changed to Petrie in his honour. In 1904 Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland was published, written by his daughter, Jenny James Petrie . The book is regarded as one of the best authorities on Brisbane's early days. In 1910 the name of the North Pine district was changed to Petrie in his honour. On Saturday 15 July 1911,
209-476: The government service as a supervisor of building. They moved to the Moreton Bay penal colony (subsequently Brisbane ) in 1837, where Thomas was educated by a convict clerk and allowed to mix freely with Aboriginal children. He learnt to speak the local language , Turrbal and was encouraged to share in all Aboriginal activities. He was witness to convicts labouring in chains on the government farms along
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#1732779895901228-494: The island and to have come into contact with the Djindubari. The incident took place in 1799, and a skirmish broke out, due to a misunderstanding over trading negotiations for a fishing net, in which an attempt was made to snatch Flinders' hat. As Flinders' boat drew away, sticks and, finally, a spear was thrown at them by the jeering Djindubari. Flinders, desiring to impress the islanders with his power, ordered musketeers to open fire, wounding two or three natives, who then fled. After
247-518: The local geography while travelling with his father. In 1851 Petrie prospected for gold in the Turon region of New South Wales and spent the next five years on Victorian goldfields also known as 'finding only enough gold to make a ring!' since it was their motto. He returned to Brisbane a number of times and saw the botched public hanging of Dalla man Dundalli in 1855 at Wickham Park . Petrie married Elizabeth Campbell in 1859 and shortly after
266-528: The marriage, Petrie sought the advice of a local Aboriginal elder named Dalaipi for a good place to start a cattle station. Dalaipi's son, Dal-ngang showed him their ancestral land at Mandin ( North Pine River ) and offered it to Petrie. Dal-ngang expressed indignation when told this land had already been acquired by the Griffens as part of the Whiteside station. Petrie, after consulting with Mrs Griffen bought
285-572: The massacre of aborigines by poisoning while they visited Kilcoy . By 1894 Meston stated that the tribe had been reduced to just one man and woman. Tom Petrie Thomas Petrie (31 January 1831 – 26 August 1910) was an Australian explorer, a YN to the districts, gold prospector, logger, and grazier. He was a Queensland pioneer. Petrie was born at Edinburgh , fourth son of Andrew Petrie and brother of John . His family travelled to Sydney , arriving in October 1831 and his father entered
304-531: The river and saw numerous floggings of convicts on Queen Street . Petrie was also in the crowd that watched the first hangings at the settlement in 1841, that of the Aboriginal men Nungavil and Mullan at The Old Windmill . At 14 he participated in a walkabout to a feast in the Bunya Mountains . He was accepted by the Aboriginal people and was often used as a messenger and invited on exploration expeditions. He also learned about surveying , bushcraft and
323-402: Was Dooroo . Colonial observers considered the Djindubari very warlike, regarded with terror by the tribes on the mainland opposite, and, putatively unlike the latter, given to cannibalism. Yarun was the name given by the Djindubari to their land, which was subsequently renamed Bribie Island. Norman Tindale regarded the Djindubari as a horde , restricted to Bribie Island, and thus a subunit of
342-477: Was commonplace for Aboriginal people to be paid for their labour with rum. Petrie continued to look for new timber and places suitable for European settlement. In 1862, he headed to the Maroochy River area with a group of 25 Aboriginal people that included Ker-Walli, Wanangga and Billy Dingy. On this journey, he became the first white man to climb Buderim Mountain and also ventured up the tributaries of
361-532: Was supportive of both the composition and continuation of the force, even though he admitted that many Aboriginal people around his residence had been shot by the detachment under Frederick Wheeler based at Sandgate . He also said that Aboriginal people were definitely cannibals and that they should be forbidden to go into Brisbane unless they had "a pass or accompanied by their masters". He claimed that he paid Aboriginal people that worked for him in clothing only, as they would otherwise spend money on alcohol and that it
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