Ngambaa

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The Ngamba were an Australian Aboriginal people of New South Wales.

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Language

The Ngamba language is poorly described because little has been transmitted of its nature. It is generally believed to have been similar to Gumbaynggirr. [1]

Country

Ngamba territory comprised some 900 square miles (2,300 km2) from Port Macquarie and the vicinity of Rollands Plains south to the Manning River. The inland extension has not been ascertained. [2]

People

A few remnants of the original tribe were attested as still living in 1929, when A.R. Radcliffe-Brown described them as lingering on with descendants of the Ngaku and Daingatti. [3] According to the reminiscences of Harry Buchanan, they had been systematically and savagely exterminated by the Australian native police. [4]

Customs

The Ngamba exploited the mangrove species Avicennia marina for its bark in order to fashion their military shields. [5]

Alternative names

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Eades 1979, pp. 249,251.
    2. 1 2 Tindale 1974.
    3. ↑ Radcliffe-Brown 1929, pp. 400,407.
    4. ↑ Eades 1979, p. 251.
    5. ↑ Duke 2006, p. 22.

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