Maranganji Explained

See also: Maranganji language. The Maranganji (also called Margany and Mardigan) are an Aboriginal Australian tribe from southwest Queensland.

Country

Norman Tindale's estimated Maranganji tribal land to be 810mi2.

Alternative names

• Marganj
• Marnganj
• Marukanji
• Murgoan
• Murgoin
• Murngain

Mardigan Source:

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Divisions of Queensland aborigines . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . 1898 . 37 . 327–336 .
• Book: Myles, F.W. . Thargominda, Bulloo River . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 2 . 36–41 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Maranganji (QLD) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/maranganji.htm .