In Norman Tindale's estimation[a] the Mandjildjara's lands extended over some 8,700 square miles (23,000 km2), running along what was later known as the Canning Stock Route, from Well 30 (Tjundu'tjundu) to Well 38 (Watjaparni).
It extended southwards some 50 miles as far the Tjanbari hill, and watering places they variously called Kolajuru, Karukada, Keweilba, and Kunkunba.
[2] According to Tindale, in 1964, the patrol officer, Walter MacDougall came across a group of nine Aboriginal women at a place called Imiri in the area known as Percival Lakes, who identified themselves as Mandjildjara.
[2][b] At the time the whole area had suffered from severe drought conditions for over a decade, leading large numbers of desert peoples, often identified generically as Pintubi, to trek or straggle eastwards to places like Balgo and Papunya.
[4] In 2024, Manyjilyjarra artist Mulyatingki Marney, who lives in the remote Punmu Community in the Pilbara region of Western Australia designed a scarf which was gifted to Gisèle Pelicot by the Older Women's Network, an Australian advocacy group.