Alura people explained

The Alura are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

The Alura inhabited the area, estimated at 900mi2, around the northern side of the lower Victorian river and extending east from its mouth towards the vicinity of Bradshaw.

Social organisation

According to the early ethnographer Robert Hamilton Mathews, the Alura had an eight-section class system of the type he called Wombya.

Language

There is no linguistic data available on the Alura people.

Alternative names

• Allura
• Hallurra
• Nallura

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Wombya organization of the Australian aborigines . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . July–September 1900 . 2 . 3 . 494–501 . 658964 . 10.1525/aa.1900.2.3.02a00050.
• Book: Spencer, Baldwin . Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia . Walter Baldwin Spencer . 1914 . . London .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Alura (NT) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . Australian National University Press . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/alura.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/alura.htm . 978-0-7081-0741-6 .