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Marri Ngarr

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The Marri Ngarr, also spelt Maringar, Murrinnga, Muringa or Maringa are an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.

Country

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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

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The language of Maringar Country is Yan-nhaŋu.[2]

Social organisation

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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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "About us | Crocodile Islands Rangers". Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  3. ^ Faulkenberg, Johannes (1963). Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. Allen & Unwin.
  4. ^ Needham, Rodney. Review: Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District by Johannes Falkenberg. American Anthropologist. pp. 1316–1318.