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The Marri Ngarr, also spelt Maringar, Murrinnga, Muringa or Maringa are an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
Country
[edit]In Norman Tindale's estimate the Maringar had about 500 square miles (1,300 km2) midway along the Moyle River and its contiguous swamplands and various tributaries.[1]
Language
[edit]Social organisation
[edit]The Maringar are composed of six clans:[1] the Bindararr, Ngurruwulu, Walamangu, Gamalangga, Malarra and Gurryindi (Gorryindi) peoples.[2]
Their society was described in a monograph by the Norwegian ethnographer Johannes Falkenberg,[3][4] 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'. [5]
Alternative names
[edit]- Muringar
- Murrinnga
- Muringa,
- Yaghanin
- Moil [1]
Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- 1 2 3 Tindale 1974, p. 231.
- 1 2 Rangers 2026.
- ↑ Falkenberg 1963.
- ↑ Levi-Strauss 1963.
- ↑ Needham 1962, p. 1316.
Sources
[edit]- Falkenberg, Johannes (1963). Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. Allen & Unwin.
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1963). "Compte-rendu:Johannes Falkenberg, Kin and Totem. Group Relations of Australian Aboriginals in the Port Keats District". L'Homme (3–3): 133–134.
- Needham, Rodney (December 1962). "Reviewed Work: Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District". American Anthropologist. 64 (6): 1316–1318. JSTOR 667861.
- "Crocodile Islands Rangers". Retrieved 5 February 2026.
- Tindale, Norman (1974). "Matuntara (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.