Marri Ngarr
The Marri Ngarr, also spelt Maringar, Murrinnga, Muringa or Maringa are an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
Country[edit]
In Norman Tindale's estimate the Maringar had about 500 square miles (1,300 km2) midway along the Moyle River and its contiguous swamplands and various tributaries.[1]
Language[edit]
The language of Maringar Country is Yan-nhaŋu.[2]
Social organisation[edit]
The Maringar are composed of six clans - the Bindararr, Ngurruwulu, Walamangu, Gamalangga, Malarra and Gurryindi (Gorryindi) peoples.[1]
Their society was described in a monograph by the Norwegian ethnographer Johannes Falkenberg,[3] based on fieldwork done in 1950, a work judged by Rodney Needham to be 'a masterly monograph which must immediately be ranked with the classics of Australian anthropology'.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Tindale, Norman (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- ^ "About us | Crocodile Islands Rangers". Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Faulkenberg, Johannes (1963). Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. Allen & Unwin.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Needham, Rodney. Review: Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District by Johannes Falkenberg. American Anthropologist. pp. 1316–1318.