Marri Ngarr Explained

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

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimate the Maringar had about 500mi2 midway along the Moyle River and its contiguous swamplands and various tributaries.[1]

Language

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

Social organisation

The Maringar are composed of six clans - the Bindararr, Ngurruwulu, Walamangu, Gamalangga, Malarra and Gurryindi (Gorryindi) peoples.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Tindale, Norman . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . Australian National University . 978-0-708-10741-6.
  2. Web site: About us Crocodile Islands Rangers . 2024-01-20 . en-US.
  3. Book: Faulkenberg, Johannes . Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District . 1963 . Allen & Unwin .
  4. Book: Needham, Rodney . Review: Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District by Johannes Falkenberg . American Anthropologist . 1316–1318 . 6.

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