== Word choice ... Mongolian army? == 

 The article says, "Each day the women of the horde went into successive parts of one countryside, with wooden digging sticks and plaited dilly bags or wooden coolamons ..." 

 "Horde" is Mongolian for "army". I doubt the Australian indigenes were also Mongolian. Is this a term of art I don't know from anthropology, or just a weird word choice? I also don't know what "parts of one countryside" means.