Ngolokwangga Explained

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

Language

The Ngolokwangga spoke Mulluk-Mulluk, one of the Daly languages.

Country

The Ngolokwangga lay inland from the Pongaponga, and held sway over, according to Norman Tindale, an estimated 400mi2 of territory running along both sides of the Daly River.

People

It has been conjectured that the Yunggor may have been a clan of the Ngolokwangga. According to the 2006 Australian census, the Ngolokwangga numbered 37.

Alternative names

• Ngulukwongga, Ngulugwongga
• Mulukmuluk, Mullukmulluk
• Malak Malak, Mallak-mallak, Malag-Malag, Mullik-mullik, Mollak-mollak, Malack-malack
• Djiramo. (a horde name)
• Valli-valli. (a native toponym for the lower Daly River).

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia . Basedow . Herbert . Herbert Basedow . . Adelaide . 1907 . 31 . 1–62 .
• Book: Dahl, Knut . In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land . Knut Dahl . 1926 . P. Allen & Sons . London . 72–98 .
• Book: Eylmann, Erhard . Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien . 1908 . D.Reimer . Berlin .
• On the Manners, Customs, etc., of some Tribes of the Aborigines, in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia . Foelsche . Paul . Paul Foelsche . . Adelaide . 1895 . 24 . 190–198 . 2842215 .
• Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia . Mackillop . Donald . Mary MacKillop . . Adelaide . 1893 . 17 . 254–264 . PDF .
• Web site: Mullukmulluk . 2018 . SIL International . Denver . .
• Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued) . Stanner . W. E. H. . William Edward Hanley Stanner . . June 1934 . 4 . 4 . 458–471 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00122.x . 27976164 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Pongaponga (NT) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pongaponga.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .