Ivaritji

Ivaritji
Ivaritji wearing a wallaby-skin cloak, photographed by Norman Tindale in 1928
Bornc. 1849
Died(1929-12-25)25 December 1929
Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia
Other namesAmelia Taylor, Amelia Savage
Occupation(s)Weaver, cook
Known forKaurna elder; last native speaker of the Kaurna language

Ivaritji (c. 1849 – 25 December 1929) also spelt Iparrityi and other variations, and also known as Amelia Taylor and Amelia Savage, was an elder of the Kaurna tribe of Aboriginal Australians from the Adelaide Plains in South Australia. She was "almost certainly the last person of full Kaurna ancestry", and the last known speaker of the Kaurna language before its revival in the 1990s.


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