Ngaliwuru (NT)

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Location: Southwest of Victoria River; southward from Bradshaw and Victoria River depot; lately to Limbunya and G. B. Waterhole (n.n. Loma); occupying also the black soil treeless plateaus west to beyond Limbunya Station, Waterloo, and the west Baines River; also at Timber Creek station; their territory was in its southern part once the home of the Tjial people.

Co-ordinates: 120°40'E x 16°10'S

Area: 6,200 sq. m. (16,100 sq. km.)

References: Stanner, 1936; Kaberry, 1939; Capell, 1940; Tindale, 1940 MS; Mackay, 1959 MS; C. Berndt, 1965.

Alternative Names: Ngaliwerun.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/19/2 - 'Anthropological Field Notes on the University of California at Los Angeles - University of Adelaide Anthropological Expedition, North West Australia. Volume II. Pp.692a-1250'

Item AA 338/15/96 - 'Northern Territory of Australia Pastoral Map'

Item AA 338/15/99 - 'D.6 - Darwin' (Northern Territory)

Item AA 338/15/102 - 'E.5 - Hall's Creek' (Western Australia)

Item AA 338/15/227 - 'Sheet D.5' (Port Keats, Northern Territory to August Island, Western Australia)

Item AA 338/15/230 - 'E.6 - Newcastle Waters' (Northern Territory)

Item AA 338/18/07 - Darwin (3109)

Item AA 338/18/14 - Halls Creek (3222)

Item AA 338/26/24/1-3 - Ian Mackay map depicting part of the Northern Territory 'tribal distributions' with NB Tindale amendments

Item AA 338/26/35 - Notes on a personal communication between John Cleverly and NB Tindale relating to distribution of tribes around Port Keats