Ngaro (QLD)

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Location: Whitsunday Island; ranging over Cumberland Islands; also to mainland at Cape Conway and on mountains east of Proserpine. Sewn ironbark canoes, called ['winta], were used for journeying between the islands-all reefs between St. Bees and Hayman Islands were known intimately and searched for food.

Co-ordinates: 149°5'E x 20°30'S

Area: 200 sq. m. (500 sq. km.)

References: Bridgeman and Bucas in Curr, 1887; Tindale, 1938 MS, 1940.

Alternative Names: Ngalangi, Googaburra (a horde name), 'Island' tribe.

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 338/1/19/1 - 'University of Adelaide and University of California Anthropological Expedition, 1952-1954.'

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

Item AA 338/7/2/33 - Queensland Tribes A-Kon, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/34 - Queensland Tribes Kon-Tal, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/35 - Queensland Tribes Native, Tam-W

Item AA 338/7/2/36 - Queensland Tribes A-R, Native