Yaroinga

The Yaroinga are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory

Country

Yaroinga country covered, according to Tindale's estimation, some 11,900 sq. miles, straddling both the Northern Territory and Queensland, at such places in the latter state as Urandangi and Headingly, and as far east as Mt Isa. Their northern limits were around Lake Nash. Westwards they were present at Barkly Downs, Mount Hogarth and Argadargada.[1]

Social organization

The Yaroinga were divided into clans, some of whose names are recorded.

  • Manda. A southern horde in the vicinity near Urandangi)

Alternative names

  • Jaroinga,
  • Yarroinga.
  • Yaringa (a creek name)
  • Yorrawinga.
  • Yarrowin,
  • Jurangka/Yurangka (Iliaura exonym).
  • Manda.
  • Pulanja. (language name)
  • Bulanja, Bulanu. [1]

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 227.

    Sources

    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Jaroinga (NT)". 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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