The Maithakari had, according to ethnologist
Norman Tindale, approximately 3,400 square miles (8,800 km2) of tribal territory extending from the Williams River and
Cloncurry. Running north, its boundaries touched
Canobie on the
Cloncurry River, and extended east to where
Julia Creek joins the Cloncurry, and also to Mount Fort Bowen. They were also present at
Dalgonally.[1]
Social organisation and rites
They did not practise either circumcision or
subincision.[1]
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"The Mouth of the Leichardt River"(PDF). In
Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 300–305.
Palmer, Edward (1886).
"The Cloncurry River"(PDF). In
Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 330–339.