Kalkadooni

The Kalkadooni, properly the Kalkatungu, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Mount Isa country of north-western Queensland, whose lands ran from the headwaters of the Cloncurry, Leichhardt and Gregory Rivers across the Barkly Tableland and the Selwyn Range. Their language, with the Yalarnnga speech to the south, formed the Kalkatungic branch of the Pama-Nyungan family, and like neighboring peoples they used a developed sign language.

The Selwyn Range was a trading crossroads where pituri narcotic, ochre, stone knives and axes moved between Boulia and Cloncurry; the metabasalt quarry at Lake Moondarra yielded hundreds of thousands of axe blanks, some carried a thousand kilometres along the trade routes.

Rock art covers the shelters of their ranges, and they were early carriers of the Mudlunga ritual dance, which later spread across much of the continent.