The Marri Ngarr, also spelt Maringar, Murrinnga, Muringa or Maringa are an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
Country
In Norman Tindale's estimate the Maringar had about 500 square miles (1,300 km2) midway along the Moyle River and its contiguous swamplands and various tributaries.1
Language
The language of Maringar Country is Yan-nhaŋu.2
Social organisation
The Maringar are composed of six clans:1 the Bindararr, Ngurruwulu, Walamangu, Gamalangga, Malarra and Gurryindi (Gorryindi) peoples.2
Their society was described in a monograph by the Norwegian ethnographer Johannes Falkenberg,34 based on fieldwork done in 1950, a work judged by Rodney Needham to be 'a masterly monograph which must immediately be ranked with the classics of Australian anthropology'. 5
Alternative names
- Muringar
- Murrinnga
- Muringa,
- Yaghanin
- Moil 1
Notes
Notes
Citations
- Tindale 1974, p. 231.
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- Falkenberg 1963.
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- Needham 1962, p. 1316.
Sources
Sources
- Falkenberg, Johannes (1963). Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. Allen & Unwin.
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1963). "Compte-rendu:Johannes Falkenberg, Kin and Totem. Group Relations of Australian Aboriginals in the Port Keats District". L'Homme (3–3): 133–134.
- Needham, Rodney (December 1962). "Reviewed Work: Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District". American Anthropologist. 64 (6): 1316–1318. JSTOR 667861.
- "Crocodile Islands Rangers". Retrieved 5 February 2026.
- Tindale, Norman (1974). "Matuntara (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.