Pongaponga
The Pongaponga were an
indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. They may have been a band of the Ngolokwangga.[1]
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal land's extent at about 200 square miles (520 km2). They inhabited the area along both banks of the
Wogait
coastal tribe.
Alternative names
- Pongo-pongo
- Djiramo. (?)[a]
Notes
- ^ According to Herbert Basedow this ethnonym referred to a horde of the Mulukmuluk[1]
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 235.
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.
- Dahl, Knut (1926). In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land (PDF). London: P. Allen & Sons. pp. 72–98.
- Eylmann, Erhard (1908). Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (PDF). Berlin: D.Reimer.
- JSTOR 2842215.
- 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.
- JSTOR 27976164.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.