Marri Ngarr

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The Marri Ngarr, also spelt Maringar, Murrinnga, Muringa or Maringa are an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.

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Country

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

The language of Maringar Country is Yan-nhaŋu. [2]

Social organisation

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]

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    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 Tindale 1974, p. 231.
    2. 1 2 Rangers 2026.
    3. ↑ Falkenberg 1963.
    4. ↑ Levi-Strauss 1963.
    5. ↑ Needham 1962, p. 1316.

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