Tenma people

Indigenous Australian people of Western Australia

The Tenma or Thiin were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. They spoke the Tenma language.

Language

The Thiin spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta, the other members of the dialect continuum being the Warriyangka, Djiwarli and Tharrkari.^[1]

Country

The Tenma were a small tribe located around the head of the Henry River, the Barlee Range and the Frederick River. Norman Tindale assigned them an estimated 2,300 square miles (6,000 km²) of traditional tribal land.^[2]

Alternative names

Te:n
Teen

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 257

Notes

Citations

^ Austin 2015, p. 5.
^ Tindale 1974, p. 257.

Sources

"AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
Austin, Peter (2015). A Grammar of the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia. School of Oriental and African Studies.
"Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Tenma (WA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.