Maranganji

The Maranganji (also rendered Margany, Mardigan) were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

Norman Tindale's estimate of Maranganji tribal lands was 810 square miles (2,100 km2). They were the original people of Quilpie, Cheepie and Beehchal, and the stretch of land the Paroo River to Eulo to Eulo. They were also present in the Bulloo River, at Ardoch, and south to the vicinity of Thargomindah, and at Dynevor Downs.[1]

Alternative names
  • Marganj
  • Marnganj
  • Marukanji
  • Murgoan
  • Murgoin
  • Murngain

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 181

Notes

    Citations
    1. Tindale 1974, p. 181.

    Sources
    • Mathews, R. H. (1898). "Divisions of Queensland aborigines". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 37: 327–336.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Myles, F.W. (1886). "Thargominda, Bulloo River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 36–41.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Maranganji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    gollark: I duckduckgoed it, and apparently you may want to reseat it.
    gollark: I think that means... board issues or issues with RAM.
    gollark: The tooling is much better now.
    gollark: Which is technically possible, with WebAssembly, just somewhat less network-utilization-efficient.
    gollark: Really tempted to just say "[REDACTED] you" to all my users on older browsers and rewrite this in Rust.
    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.