Ngalia (Northern Territory)
The Ngaliya (Ngalia) are an
indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory who speak a dialect of the Warlpiri language.[1] They are not to be confused with the Ngalia of the Western Desert.[2]
Country
The traditional lands of the Ngalia, in
Vaughan Springs (aka Pikilji/Pikilyi).[3]
History of contact
Carl Strehlow was the first outsider to mention the Ngalia.[4][5] Some studies were made of them in August 1931, and in the same month in 1952,[6] at Cockatoo Creek by members of anthropological expeditions from the University of Adelaide. On the first occasion, one Ngalia youth, advancing through the degrees of his initiation, recited a list of over 300
serpent Jarapiri as it slithered across Warlpiri and Ngalia country, to Wimbaraku, situated between Mount Liebig and Haast's Bluff.[8][9]
In the early 1950s their numbers were estimated to be 300-400.[10]
Alternative names
- Ngalea
- Ngallia
- Nanbuda
- Ngarilia. (typo)
- Ngali
- Njalia. (a blunder)
- Wawilja. ( exonym)
- Warniaka
- Waneiga. (exonym)
- Nambulatji. (Gugadjaexonym)
- Jalpiri[3]
Notes
Citations
- ^ C43 Ngaliya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 215.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 233.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 139.
- ^ Strehlow 1910.
- ^ Cleland & Tindale 1954, p. 81.
- ^ Tindale 1946, p. 77.
- ^ Mountford 1968.
- ^ Elkin 1969, p. 79.
- ^ Abbie & Adey 1953, p. 342.
Sources
- PMID 13104649.
- Cleland, J. B.; Tindale, N. (1954). "Ecological surroundings of the Ngalia natives in Central Australia and native names and uses of plants". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 77: 81–86.
- JSTOR 40329837.
- JSTOR 27976165.
- Mountford, Charles P. (1968). Winbaraku and the Myth of Jarapiri. Adelaide: Rigby.
- JSTOR 2843917.
- Strehlow, C. (1910). Leonhardi, Moritz von (ed.). Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien Part 3 (PDF). Joseph Baer & Co.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1946). "Australian (Aborigine)". In Shipley, Joseph T. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Literature. Vol. 1. Philosophical Library. pp. 74–78.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.