Maranganji (QLD)

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Location: Quilpie to Cheepie and Beechal, thence Paroo River to Eulo; on Bulloo River south to near Thargomindah; at Dynevor Downs and Ardoch. They did not practice the male rite of circumcision.

Co-ordinates: 144°35'E x 27°20'S

Area: 810 sq. m. (2,100 sq. km.)

References: Myles in Curr, 1886; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6444); Kelly, 1935; Tindale, 1940; Durack, 1959; Breen, 1969 MS.

Alternative Names: Marukanji (valid alternative), Marganj, Marnganji (typographical error), Murngain, Murgoin, Murgoan.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/7/2/58 - Parallel Vocabulary 1, Harvard Expedition, A-K

Item AA 338/7/2/59 - Parallel Vocabulary 2, Harvard Expedition, L-S

Item AA 338/7/2/60 - Parallel Vocabulary 3, Harvard Expedition, T-Z

Item AA 338/8/20 - Parallel Vocabularies

Item AA 338/18/25 - Charleville (3341)

Item AA 338/18/26 - Cooper Creek (3342)

Item AA 338/18/37 - Bourke (3356)

Item AA 338/26/48/1-10 - JG Breen letter to NB Tindale relating to the distribution and language of Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australian 'tribes'

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

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