Wagoman
The Wagoman were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
The Wagoman language is a language isolate. It has been contrasted for its comparative roughness to the smooth, euphonious sound of Marrithiel spoken down country by the Marrithiyal.[1]
Country
The Wagoman had, in Tindale 's estimation, approximately 1,800 square miles (4,700 km2) of territory in the area southwest of the Daly River, and in the area of Dorisvale, and from Bamboo Creek northwards as far as Douglas Homestead. Their frontier to the west, west of Oooloo, lay on the Daly River Crossing close to Mount Nancar, a place where they were accustomed to meet up with the neighbouring tribes, the Kamor and Ngolokwangga.[2] It was considered a stoney country.[1]
Social organization
The western tribes of the Wagoman were called collectively the Wongkakaringa.[2]
Sources
- Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1933). "The Daly River Tribes: a Report of Field Work in North Australia". Oceania. 3 (4): 377–405. JSTOR 40327429.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Stanner, W. E. H. (December 1933). "Ceremonial economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella tribes of the Daly River". Oceania. 4 (2). JSTOR 40327457.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1936). "Note on Djamindjung Kinship and Totemism". Oceania. 6 (4): 441–451. JSTOR 40327576.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Stanner, W. E. H. (September 1938). "Notes on the Marithiel Language". Oceania. 9 (1): 101–108. JSTOR 40327703.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wagoman (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)