Jalanga (QLD)

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Location: On Wills Creek from south of Duchess to Fort William; on Burke River and Mort River to north of Chatsworth; at Noranside and Buckingham Downs.

Co-ordinates: 140°0'E x 21°55'S

Area: 4,200 sq. m. (10,900 sq. km.)

References: Eglinton in Curr, 1886; Roth, 1897; Tindale, 1940; B. Blake, 1969 MS; West, pers. comm.

Alternative Names: Yellunga, Yelina, Wonganja (supposedly extinct horde).

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 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/18/21 - Cloncurry (3233)

Item AA 338/26/40/1-3 - Letter from Barry Blake to NB Tindale relating to the spelling and language of Queensland and Northern Territory 'tribes'