Baada
The Baada, also commonly called the Bardi, are an indigenous Australian people, living north of Broome and inhabiting parts of the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The Baada language is a non-Pama-Nyungan tongue,the most northerly variety of the Nyulnyulan language family. It is mutually intelligible with Jawi. It is the best known Nyulnyulan language, and a detailed grammar of the language exists, written by Claire Bowern.
The Baada's traditional land, estimated by Norman Tindale to encompass about 300 square miles (780 km2), was in the Cape Leveque peninsula, extending eastwards from Cape Borda to Cygnet Bay and Cunningham Point. There are problems with this estimate, in particular with the southern borders assigned to the Baada. The Kooljaman resort at Cape Leveque is run by Bardi people.
The Baada were a maritime, coastal people, composed of 5 groups. They crafted pegged mangrove (tjulbu) logs (tjulbu) from a light buoyant variety (mandjilal) which they got in trade from the Djaui people of Sunday Island to form rafts (gaalwa) in order to venture out to the sea to hunt, and to visit the outlying islands.
As with the Djaui, the Baada defined land rights in terms of 4 kinds of relationship:
Norman Tindale thought that the Barda were perhaps those described by William Dampier. Dampier arrived in the privateer Cygnet off this coast on 5 January 1688, and remained there doing repairs until 12 March, This has been identified as, in all probability, Karakatta Bay in King Sound, now One Arm Point. The ancestors of the Baada were thus probably the first native Australian people described by Western explorers. A degree of confirmation of this inference emerged when Toby Metcalfe, a linguist who has studied the Baada language, suggested that Dampier's report of his encounter with the natives of the bay contained a word which was still recognizable from the Baada lexicon.
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