The Marrago were an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 year ...
people of the state of the
Cape York Peninsula
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in northern
Queensland
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. They may have been a subgroup of the
Mayi-Kutuna.
Country
Little is known of the details of the Marrago domain, which was in western Queensland, but
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians ...
calculated, by default, that their tribal lands covered roughly around the area of the Alexandra River.
Gavan Breen
Gavan Breen (22 January 1935 – 5 October 2023) , also known as J. G. Breen, was an Australian linguist, specialising in the description of Australian Aboriginal languages. He studied and recorded 49 such languages.
Early life and education
Bre ...
(1981) thought that they might have been a sub-group of the Mayi Kutuna people;
Paul Memmott (1994) lists their language but gives no further detail. Their status is unconfirmed by the
AIATSIS
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, ...
collection.
Alternative names
* ''Ngarra''
* ''Nga:rago'' (?)
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland
Far North Queensland