Maranganji

See also: Maranganji language

The Maranganji (also called Margany, Mardigan) are an Aboriginal Australian tribe from southwest Queensland.

Country

Norman Tindale's estimated Maranganji tribal land to be 810 square miles (2,100 km²).

Alternative names

• Marganj
• Marnganj
• Marukanji
• Murgoan
• Murgoin
• Murngain

Mardigan Source: Tindale 1974, p. 181

Sources

• Mathews, R. H. (1898). "Divisions of Queensland aborigines". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 37: 327–336.
• Myles, F.W. (1886). "Thargominda, Bulloo River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 36–41.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Maranganji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.