Wilingura

The Wilingura otherwise known as the Wilangarra,^[1] were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

The Wilingura inhabited the land between the Cox River^[2] and Nutwood Downs.^[3] Norman Tindale estimated their territory as covering some 7,500 square miles (19,000 km²), taking in the Strangways River and the upper Hodgson River, and running west to the vicinity of Birdum (Pine Creek).^[4]

Alternative names

• Willongera
• Leewillungarra
• Willangan
• Wilungwara
• Wilinggura^[4]

Notes

Citations

1. Dickson 2015, p. 41.
2. DAPL: Cox River.
3. DAPL:Nutwood Downs.
4. Tindale 1974, p. 238.

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.
• Dickson, Greg (2015). Marra and Kriol: the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary (PhD thesis). Australian National University.
• "Map of Cox River, NT". Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
• "Map of Nutwood Downs, NT". Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
• Spencer, Sir Baldwin; Gillen, Francis J. (1904). Northern Tribes of Central Australia (PDF). Macmillan Publishers.
• Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
• Stretton, W. G. (1893). "Customs, rites and superstitions of the aboriginal tribes of the Gulf of Carpentaria" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17: 227–253.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wilingura(NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.