Nangatara Explained

The Nangatara are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.

Country

The Nangatara ranged over some 13800mi2 of territory, northwest of the Canning Stock Route, mainly between Lake Wooloomber and a place called Kuljai, a well (no.48) mapped for that area. Their northwestern boundary lay halfway between the Percival Lakes and Joanna Springs.

Lifestyle

Given the scarcity of water, with only some available in distant wells and rock catchment areas, when drought struck, the Nangatara would trek to Karbardi, south of Adverse Well. The heartland of their territory was Rama, a type of hard gravel plain which they called laribuka.

History

Even before contact with whites, the Nangatara were pushing northwards along the Canning Stock Route, as the Walmadjari withdrew from that part of their territory.

Alternative names

• Nangadjara
• Njangadjara
• Julbaritja (an exonym of the Njangamarda and Mangala, meaning 'southerners')
• Yulbari-dja, Julbaridja
• Ilbaridja
• Nanidjara (scornful term of abuse used by the Wanman people for them, just as other tribes applied it also the Wanman)
• Nangi
• Mangai
• Mangi

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Frobenius-Expedition nach Nordwest-Australien 1953-1955 (Kurzer Reisebericht) . Petri . Helmut . Helmut Petri . Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde . . 6 . 2 . 92–94 . German . August 1955a . 40341215 .
• Dynamik im Stammesleben Nordwest-Australiens . Petri . Helmut . Helmut Petri . Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde . . 6 . 3 . 152–168 . German . August 1955b . 40341221 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Nangatara (WA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nangatara.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nangatara.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .
• Review: Das Schwirrholz. Eine Untersuchung über die Verbreitung und Bedeutung der Schwirren im Kult by Otto Zerries . Worms . Ernest Ailred . Ernest Ailred Worms . 46 . 1018–1020 . Anthropos . Anthropos Institut . 5/6 . September–December 1951 . 40449557 .