Mudburra Explained

The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

See main article: Mudburra language. Mudburra is one of the far eastern forms of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.

Country

The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the Murranji Track (the Ghost Road of the Drovers) and held in Tindale's estimation some 10000mi2 of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong River^[1] and the upper Victoria River at a place called Tjambutjambulani. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay at Cattle Creek. In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters to the Camfield River.

Alternative names

• Madbara
• Moodburra, Mootburra
• Mudbara
• Mudbera
• Mudbra
• Mudbura
• Mudburra
• Mulpira. (Iliaura exonym)

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See also

• Ngumpit, a name used by the Gurindji, Malngin, Bilinara, Mudburra and Ngarinyman peoples to refer to themselves as a group
• Wave Hill walk-off, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967.

Notes

Citations

Sources

• The Wombya Organization of the Australian Aborigines . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . July–September 1900 . 2 . 3 . 494–501 . 10.1525/aa.1900.2.3.02a00050 . 658964 .
• Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Northern Territory . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . Queensland Geographical Journal . 1901 . 16 . 69–90 .
• Book: A Grammar of Bilinarra: An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory . Meakins . Felicity . Nordlinger . Rachel . 2014 . . 978-1-614-51274-5 .
• The Social Organization of Australian Tribes Part II (Continued) . Radcliffe-Brown . A. R. . Alfred Radcliffe-Brown . . October–December 1930 . 1 . 3 . 322–341 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1930.tb01652.x . 40327330 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Mutpura (NT) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/mutpura.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .
• The Aljawara and Their Territory . Yallop . C. L. . . 1969 . 39 . 3 . 187–197 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1969.tb01005.x . 40329775 .

Notes and References

1. http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=209409&cmd=sp&s=tennant%20creek&m=0&st=NT&c=1&x=131.45517&y=-16.802805&w=42474&mpsec=0 Armstrong River