Jabirr Jabirr, is also written as Jabirrjabirr and with other spellings such as DjaberrDjaberr, Djaberadjabera, Dyaberdyaber and Jabba Jabba. Their language is the
Jabirr Jabirr language.
Country
The Djaberadjabera held, according to
Norman Tindale's estimation, some 800 square miles (2,100 km2) of tribal land on the western side of the
Dampier Peninsula. From the coastal area of Sandy Point at
Beagle Bay, their territory went south as far as Cape Bertholet. Their inland extension was about 30 miles.[1]
Running clockwise, their neighbours were, to the north, the
Nyulnyul, the
Warrwa on their eastern flank, the
Nimanburu southeast, and the
Ngombal to their south.[2][3]
History of contact
By 1953 only 5 members of the tribe were still known to survive, and in 1974 Tindale stated that they were virtually extinct.[1]