Nanggikorongo

The Nanggikorongo are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern territory.

Name

There is some dispute as to whether Nanggikorongo refers to this tribe or is a "big name" toponym for a place on the Murinbata coastline.

Country

The Nanggikorongo's traditional lands extended over some 1,200 square miles (3,100 km²), east of Wadeye/Port Keats and inland to the Moyle River.

People

W. E. H.Stanner suggested Nangiomeri as an alternative name, while Norman Tindale called for further research to clarify what relation the Nanggikorongo had with the more easterly Nanggumiri.

Alternative names

• Mangikurungu.
• Nordaniman. (an error)
• Nordanimin.

Sources

• Davidson, D. S. (January–June 1935). "Archaeological Problems of Northern Australia". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 65 (3): 145–183. JSTOR 2843847. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1933a). "The Daly River Tribes: a Report of Field Work in North Australia". Oceania. 3 (4): 377–405. JSTOR 40327429. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Stanner, W. E. H. (December 1933b). "Ceremonial economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella tribes of the Daly River". Oceania. 4 (2): 156–175. JSTOR 40327457. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1934). "Ceremonial economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella tribes of the Daly River". Oceania. 4 (4): 458–471. JSTOR 27976164. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Stanner, W. E. H. (March 1937). "Aboriginal Modes of Address and Reference in the North-West of the Northern Territory". Oceania. 7 (3): 300–315. JSTOR 40327615. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Nanggikorongo (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)