Maranganji

See also: Maranganji language

The Maranganji (also called Margany and Mardigan) are an Aboriginal Australian tribe from southwest Queensland.

Country

Norman Tindale's estimated Maranganji tribal land to be 810 square miles (2,100 km2).[1]

Alternative names

  • Marganj
  • Marnganj
  • Marukanji
  • Murgoan
  • Murgoin
  • Murngain

Mardigan 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.
  • 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. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 36–41.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Maranganji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.