Ngandangara (QLD)

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Location: On upper Wilson River; north to Eromanga and beyond toward Thylungra and Ray; south to Nockatunga. This is one of the easternmost of the circumcising tribes. Riddell met them at Durham Downs which is west of their original home. The shape of their claimed territory as mapped seems to imply there may have been two tribes here at one time.

Co-ordinates: 143°10'E x 26°50'S

Area: 4,800 sq. m. (12,500 sq. km.)

References: Myles in Curr, 1886; Riddell, 1928; Tindale, 1940; Breen, 1969 MS.

Alternative Names: Ngandangura, Jarumarda (language name), Unda Gnoora, Eromarra.

Inventory Listings

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

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

Item AA 338/26/20 - Ronald Murray Berndt maps depicting 'The Western Desert Area of Australia' and 'Tribal Perspective of Jigalong Aborigines-1957'

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'