Alura people

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

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Country

The Alura inhabited the area, estimated at 900 square miles (2,300 km2), around the northern side of the lower Victorian river and extending east from its mouth towards the vicinity of Bradshaw. [1]

Social organisation

According to the early ethnographer Robert Hamilton Mathews, the Alura had an eight-section class system of the type he called Wombya. [2]

Language

There is no linguistic data available on the Alura people. [3]

Alternative names

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 220.
    2. Mathews 1900, pp. 494–501, 498.
    3. N5 Alura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    4. Mathews 1900, p. 498.

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