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Jindalee's footprints, now partly inundated with seawater, known as Peel-Harvey Estuary. A place such great bounty it was a major meeting place. Mandjar (Mandurah) with its bays full of fish and shellfish and proximity to the seasonal benefits of Djilda and the surrounding swamps made an excellent place for large gatherings at almost any time of the year. Mandja became a marketplace where people from many places gathered to trade ochres, tools made from particular stone and plants and their extracts that were not locally available such as pidjeri, from which an oral nicotine lozenge was made. Any large gathering place inevitably leads to the blossoming of new relationships. Unlike Mandjmup, which was a place of arranging and conducting marriages, Mandjoogoorap (meeting place of the heart) was perhaps a place where those from different tribal groups could find a partner, provided their totems were appropriate. 

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