Baiyungu facts for kids

The Baiyungu are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

Country

According to Norman Tindale's figures, the Baiyungu occupied some 4,000 square miles (10,000 km²) on the Lower Lyndon and Minilya River, running in a southwesterly direction from the salt marshland down to Quobba. He puts their eastern frontier at Winning Pool, while stating that their northern extension went as far as the area of Giralia and Bullara, falling short of the coastal areas up to and near the at North West Cape on the Exmouth Gulf.

Alternative names

• Baijungo
• Baiong, Baiung, Biong
• Kakarakala ("eastern fires"): This is a generic ethnonym subsuming several tribes from Shark Bay to the North West Cape under one rubric, and apparently arose from its use in this sense among the Mandi. Apart from the Baiyungu, three other tribes came under this heading: the Inggarda, the Maia and the Yinikutira.
• Paiunggu, Bayungu
• Payungu

Some words

• tauara (totem center).