Wailpi
# Wailpi

The Wailpi are an indigenous people of South Australia They are also known as the Adnyamathanha, which also refers to a larger group, though they speak a dialect of the Adnyamathanha language.

## Country

The Wailpi had, according to Norman Tindale's figures, about 3,000 square miles (7,800 $km^2)$ of territory around Umberatana and Mount Serie, south as far as Parachilna Gorge only in the Flinders Ranges. Their eastern extension ran above Wooltana. An early report by a police trooper in the area, Henry Quincy Smith, placed these 'hill people' at Mount Freeiing, Umberatana, Angipena, Ameandana. Lollabollana, Illawortina, the Daly and Stanley Mine (Poondinna).

## Social organization and customs

The Wailpi practised both circumcision and subincision.

## Mythology

According to Henry Quincy Smith:-

   They believe that two old women called Yammutu live towards the east a long way (paldrupa), and that when rain comes they lie down on their backs with their legs open, and the water runs into their person and causes them to bear a lot of young blacks called Muree; who, as they grow up, start westward, always throwing a small waddy, called weetchu, before them, till one of them meets a blackfellow with his lubra. The Muree, being invisible, then walks in the blackfellow' s tracks to make him or her look like the blackfellow, and then throws the small waddy under the thumb-nail or great toe-nail, and so enters into the woman's body. She is soon pregnant, and in due time gives birth to an ordinary child.'

## Alternative names

* Anjamutina, Andyamatana
* Anjimatana (Kuyani exonym = 'hill people.')
* Anyamatana, Adnjamatana, Adnjamadana, Adjnjamatana, Adyamatana
* Archualda
* Atjualda. (mishearing of preceding)
* Benbakanjamata. (Kuyani exonym meaning "Pine Hills people")
* Binbarnja. (Wadikali exonym from binba = Callitris)
* Gadjnjamadja
* Kanjamata, Kanjimata. (Wongkanguru exonym))
* Keidnamutha
* Keydnjamarda
* Kudnamietha. (eastern tribal exonym, kudna = feces, i.e. shit-eaters).
* Kutchnamootha
* Mardala. (Diyari exonym from Wailpi ma:dəla, meaning 'no'.)
* Mardula
* Ngatjuwalda. ("our speech," language name),
* Nimalda
* Nimbalda, Nimbaldi. (misprint).
* Nuralda
* Umbertana. (error for Umberatana, a toponym)
* Unyamatana, Unyamootha
* Wadla. ("Scrub wallabies," Diyari pejorative exonym)
* Wailbi. (in Barngarla, this word means 'south west')
* Wajalpi
* Wipie
