Ngalea

The Ngalea were an indigenous Australian people resident in land extending from Western Australia to the west of South Australia.

Name

The southern tribe should not be confused with the Ngalia of the Northern Territory.[1]

Country

The Ngalea lived around the salt lake areas, such as the Serpentine Lakes in the Great Victoria Desert, northwest of Ooldea, in what is now the Mamungari Conservation Park. Norman Tindale estimated their tribal lands as covering an extension of some 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2).[2]

Alternative names

  • Ngalia, Ngalija.
  • Ngaliawongga.
  • Tangara.
  • Windakan. (applied to their language, and also to the Wiringu)
  • Nangga. ('men' in the sense that they had undergone circumcision)
  • Nanggarangku. (Pitjantjatjara exonym bearing the meaning of 'hostile men.')
  • Nanggaranggu.
  • Willoorara((people of the) 'west'.)[2]

Notes

    Citations

    Sources

    • Bates, Daisy (1918). "Aborigines of the West Coast of South Australia; vocabularies and ethnological notes". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide. 42: 152–167.
    • Campbell, T. D.; Lewis, A. J. (1926). "The aborigines of South Australia: anthropometric descriptive and other observations recorded at Ooldea". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide. 50: 183–191.
    • Elkin, A. P. (September 1931). "The Social Organization of South Australian Tribes". Oceania. Adelaide. 2 (1): 44–73. JSTOR 40327353.
    • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Ngalea (SA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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