The Ngulungbara were an Aboriginal Australian people or clan of Fraser Island in the state of Queensland, possibly of the Butchulla people.
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The Ngulingbara's status as an independent tribe has been contested, since some authorities consider them to have been a horde of the Butchulla, since the -bara suffix in their ethnonym is suggestive of a clan grouping. They occupied a sector of Fraser Island north of Boomerang Hill and, in Norman Tindale's estimate, inhabited an area of some 200 square miles (520 km2).[1]
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- Olongbura
- Gnoolongbara
- Koolaburra[1]
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Citations edit
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 183.
Sources edit
- Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
- Shirley, John (1897). "Vocabularies of the Gowrburra and Koolaburra tribes". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 12: 1–9. doi:10.5962/p.351255. S2CID 257138185.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Ngulungbara (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.