Ivaritji | |
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![]() Ivaritji wearing a wallaby-skin cloak, photographed by Norman Tindale in 1928 | |
Born | c. 1849 Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Died | Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia | 25 December 1929
Other names | Amelia Taylor, Amelia Savage |
Occupation(s) | Weaver, cook |
Known for | Kaurna 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.