The Kalamaia figure in the forefront of those tribes that included circumcision in their initiation ceremonies, and the called contiguous southwestern tribes which did not share this rite Mudia/Mudila/Mudilja, a pejorative word referring to their physical states. Another term for such Mudiya was Minang ((people of the) south).[2]
Daisy Bate's also refers to the tribes that occupied southern cross as Eastern Meenung with their territory ending near Boorabbin.