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Girramay


The Girramay were an Australian Aboriginal tribe of northern Queensland.

The Girramay ethnonym is formed from jir:a, meaning 'man.'

The Girramay spoke the most southerly dialect of Dyirbal.

The Girramay people's traditional lands extended over some 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2) south from Rockingham Bay to Cardwell. Northwards, their boundaries reached close to the upper Murray River and the Cardwell Range, and also took in inland areas of the Herbert River.

The Girramay lived in a mixture of rainforest and open forest environments.

Girramay territory had trees with a variety of bark that could be beaten into a cloth to fashion a 'rain shield' and neighbouring tribes such as the Dyirbal and Ngajanji therefore called this device a keramai, their pronunciation of the Girramay ethnonym.


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