Ngolokwangga

The Ngolokwangga are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

The Ngolokwangga spoke Mulluk-Mulluk, one of the Daly languages.

Country

The Ngolokwangga lay inland from the Pongaponga, and held sway over, according to Norman Tindale, an estimated 400 square miles (1,000 km²) of territory running along both sides of the Daly River.^[1]

People

It has been conjectured that the Yunggor may have been a clan of the Ngolokwangga.^[2] According to the 2006 Australian census, the Ngolokwangga numbered 37.^[3]

Alternative names

• Ngulukwongga, Ngulugwongga
• Mulukmuluk, Mullukmulluk
• Malak Malak, Mallak-mallak, Malag-Malag, Mullik-mullik, Mollak-mollak, Malack-malack
• Djiramo. (a horde name)
• Valli-valli. (a native toponym for the lower Daly River).^[1]

Notes

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 234.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 228.
3. Ethnologue 2018.

Sources

• Basedow, Herbert (1907). "Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 31. Adelaide: 1–62.
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• Mackillop, Donald (1893). "Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17. Adelaide: 254–264.
• "Mullukmulluk". Denver: SIL International. 2018.
• Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1934). "Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued)". Oceania. 4 (4): 458–471. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00122.x. JSTOR 27976164.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Pongaponga (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.