The Wilingura otherwise known as the Wilangarra,[1] were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Country
editThe Wilingura inhabited the land between the Cox River[2] and Nutwood Downs.[3] Norman Tindale estimated their territory as covering some 7,500 square miles (19,000 km2), taking in the Strangways River and the upper Hodgson River, and running west to the vicinity of Birdum (Pine Creek).[4]
Alternative names
edit- Willongera
- Leewillungarra
- Willangan
- Wilungwara
- Wilinggura[4]
Notes
editCitations
edit- ^ Dickson 2015, p. 41.
- ^ DAPL: Cox River.
- ^ DAPL:Nutwood Downs.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 238.
Sources
edit- Basedow, Herbert (1907). "Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 31. Adelaide: 1–62.
- Dickson, Greg (2015). Marra and Kriol: the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary (PhD thesis). Australian National University.
- "Map of Cox River, NT". Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- "Map of Nutwood Downs, NT". Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- Spencer, Sir Baldwin; Gillen, Francis J. (1904). Northern Tribes of Central Australia (PDF). Macmillan Publishers.
- Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Stretton, W. G. (1893). "Customs, rites and superstitions of the aboriginal tribes of the Gulf of Carpentaria" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17: 227–253.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wilingura(NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.