Jingili people explained

The Jingili or Jingulu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

Jingulu is classified as belonging to the Mirndi family of non Pama–Nyungan languages. An early word-list was compiled by F. A. Gillen. Following in the wake of pioneering work by Neil Chadwick in the 1970s, Robert Pensalfini wrote out a grammar of Jingulu on the basis of fieldwork with its last known fluent speakers.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated the range of Jingili lands at approximately 5900mi2. The southern frontier was around the Renner Springs area about Mount Grayling, extending northwards to Newcastle Waters and also took in the area of the Ashburton Range. To the east they encompassed Cattle Creek south of Wave Hill and Ucharonidge. Their western extension ran as far as the 25 miles from Lake Woods.

Social organization

R. H. Mathews constructed an early scheme to set forth the marriage divisions of the Jingili.

Divisions of the Jingili tribe
Phratry	Section of Parents		Section of Offspring
Phratry	Husband	Wife	Son	Daughter
A	Jimmitcha Chunainjah Chemarainjah Tampachina	Nungalleeinja Nalainjah Naraleeinjah Nungareeinjah	Taraleeinjah Tungareeinjah Chulainjah Chungaleeinjah	Naraleeinjah Nungareeinjah Nalainjah Nungalleeinja
B	Chungaleeinjah Chulainjah Tungareeinjah Taraleeinjah	Nameeinjah Nanainjah Nabajinah Nemarainjah	Tampachina Chemarainjah Chunainjah Jimmitcha	Nabajinah Nemarainjah Nanainjah Nameeinjah

Some eight years later he reconfigured the data in the following terms:-

Divisions of the Jingili tribe
Phratry	Section of Parents		Section of Offspring
Phratry	Wife	Husband	Offspring
Cycle A	Chungalee Chula Taralee Tungaree	Chimitcha Chuna Chemara Champina	Taralee Tanagree Chula Chingaree
Cycle B	Chimicha Chuna Champina Chimara	Chungalee Chula Tangaree Taralee	Champina Chemara Chuna Chimitcha

History of contact

According to oral tradition, the Jingili originally migrated from the Great Western Desert.

Alternative names

Chingalee, Chingalli
Djingili, Djingali, Djinggili
Leechunguloo
T(h)ingalie
Tjingale, Tchingalee
Tjingilli, Tjingali, Tjingalli
Tjingilu

Source:

Some words

mowija. (pieces of crystallized quartz used, according to Ravenscroft, to kill an enemy by creeping up to him when the latter slept, and placing the stones on his chest.)

Notes

Citations

Sources

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The Wombya Organization of the Australian Aborigines . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . Adelaide . July–September 1900 . 2 . 3 . 494–501 . 10.1525/aa.1900.2.3.02a00050 . 658964.
Notes on some aboriginal tribes . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . . 1907 . 41 . 67–87 . 10.5962/p.359489 . 259716576 . free.
The Sociology of the Arranda and Chingalee Tribes (Northern Territory Australia) . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . 30 March 1908a . 19 . 1 . 99–103 . 1254720.
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