Mudburra
The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, are an
Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory
.
Language
Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.[1]
Country
The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the Murranji Track (the Ghost Road of the Drovers) and held in Tindale's estimation some 10,000 square miles (26,000 km2) of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong River[2] and the upper Victoria River at a place called Tjambutjambulani. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay at Cattle Creek. In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters to the Camfield River.[3]
Alternative names
- Madbara
- Moodburra, Mootburra
- Mudbara
- Mudbera
- Mudbra
- Mudbura
- Mudburra
- Mulpira. (exonym)
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 232
See also
- Ngarinymanpeoples to refer to themselves as a group
- Wave Hill walk-off, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967.
Notes
Citations
- ^ Meakins & Nordlinger 2014, p. 1.
- ^ Armstrong River
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 232.
Sources
- JSTOR 658964.
- Mathews, R. H. (1901). "Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Northern Territory". Queensland Geographical Journal. 16: 69–90.
- Meakins, Felicity; Nordlinger, Rachel (2014). A Grammar of Bilinarra: An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory. ISBN 978-1-614-51274-5.
- JSTOR 40327330.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Yallop, C. L. (1969). "The Aljawara and Their Territory". JSTOR 40329775.