Araba (QLD)

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Location: At Retreat, Miranda Downs, and Vanrook; south to Gilbert River; north to Pelican Creek and beyond; not farther east than head of Emu Creek; in post-European times shifted west to Normanton where their westernmost camp was on the site they still use on the east side of the township.

Co-ordinates: 142°10'E x 17°10'S

Area: 4,000 sq. m. (10,400 sq. km.)

References: Mathews, 1899 (Gr. 6445); Sharp, 1939; Tindale, 1940, 1963 MS.

Alternative Names: A:rap (valid alternative pronunciation), Aripa, Ngariba (Walangama term).

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

Item AA 338/1/25 - 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria by Norman B Tindale. 1963.'

Item AA 338/15/41 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 2.'

Item AA 338/18/12 - Normanton (3220)

Item AA 346/4/20 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition sociological, anthropological and ACER data cards

Item AA 662/27/6/1/5 - From Reichert to Albrecht

Item AA 689/9/16 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Expedition, Anthropological Data Cards, with Sociological Photographs attached. 1938-39.