Ngalia (Western Desert)

The Ngalea or Ngalia were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Western Desert cultural bloc resident in land extending from Western Australia to the west of South Australia.[1] They are not to be confused with the Ngalia of the Northern Territory.[2]

Ngalia
People
EthnicityAboriginal Australian
LocationWestern and South Australia
Descended fromWestern Desert cultural bloc
See also: Mantjintjarra Ngalia
Not to be confused with Ngalia (Northern Territory).

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).[3]

Alternative names
  • Ngalia, Ngalija
  • Ngaliawongga
  • Tangara
  • Windakan (applied to their language, and also to the Wirangu)
  • 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')[3]

Notes

    Citations
    1. C2 Ngalia at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    2. Tindale 1974, p. 233.
    3. Tindale 1974, p. 215.

    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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Elkin, A. P. (September 1931). "The Social Organization of South Australian Tribes". Oceania. Adelaide. 2 (1): 44–73. JSTOR 40327353.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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