Ngan'gimerri

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The Ngan'gimerri, also spelt Nangiomeri, Nanggumiri,

Aboriginal Australian people of the Daly River area in the Northern Territory
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Language

Ngan'gimerri is one of the Southern Daly River languages, and considered a dialect of the Ngan'gi language.[2]

Country

Their traditional grounds lie to the east of those of the

Madngella. They ran along the Flora River up to its junction with the Daly.[1]

Post-contact history

Securing food for Aboriginal nomads was always a dicey business, and the attraction of areas where Europeans settled, as places where, through kinship with

Wagiman people, and never looked back to return to their homeland.[4]

According to Johannes Falkenberg, one horde of the tribe, known as the Ngargaminjin, assimilated with the Murrinh-Partha after the coming of white colonisation.[1]

Society and kinship

The Ngan'gimerri and their allies the

ceremonial obligations required them to cooperate in crucial ritual circumstances, such as the Dingiri style circumcision initiatory rite, Dingiri being a mythical hunter who sang himself into stone.[5] Their kinship is based on the eight-subsection principle.[6]

Mythology

The

rainbow serpent figures prominently among Daly River tribes, such as the Wagiman and the Marrithiyal for his role in stealing one of the wives of the flying fox, and suffering the consequences. In the Nangiomeri version, as with the Murrinh-Patha, the rainbow serpent is bisexual.[7]

Durmugan

The Australian anthropologist

bull-roarer Karwadi, which had been adopted from the earlier belief system. It was the stimulus of this new native messianic cult that, in Stanner's view, fired men like Durmugan to lead the lives they did.[9]

Stanner's long memoir of Durmugan soon became famous, with its insightful tale of the relationship between an Aboriginal informant and his anthropologist interpreter. Robert Manne has called it "the finest essay by an Australian" he had ever come across.[10][11]

His name indicated a Murrinh-Patha connection, being a variant on a place-name, Dirmugam, in the latter Nangor clan's territory. His only equal, and, in dance, superior was a Murrinh-Patha warrior and trickster called Tjimari, whose story was given lustre after he made friends with the Australian poet Roland Robinson.[12]

Alternative names

  • Nanggiomeri, Nangiomeri, Nangumiri
  • Nangimera, Nangimeri
  • Nanggiwumiri, Nangi-wumiri
  • Ngen-gomeri
  • Mariwumiri
  • Murinwumiri
  • Wumiri[1]
  • Nanggikorongo[13]

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Tindale 1974, p. 232.
  2. ^ Grimes 2003, p. 416.
  3. ^ Stanner 2011, p. 21.
  4. ^ Stanner 2011, p. 31.
  5. ^ Stanner 2011, p. 22.
  6. ^ Stanner 2011, p. 33.
  7. ^ Maddock 1978, p. 6.
  8. ^ Stanner 2011, pp. 19–56, 21.
  9. ^ Stanner 2011, p. 34.
  10. ^ Manne 2011, p. 4.
  11. ^ Hinkson 2010, p. 81.
  12. ^ Stanner 2011, pp. 23–24.
  13. ^ N8 Ngan'gikurunggurr at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Sources

  • JSTOR 40327769
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  • Green, Ian (September 1989). Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory (PDF). ANU PhD.
  • Grimes, Barbara (2003). "Daly River Languages". In Frawley, William (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: AAVE-Esperanto. Vol. 1. .
  • Hinkson, Melinda (2010). "Thinking with Stanner in the present". Humanities Research. 16 (2): 75–92.
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