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Matngala
The Madngella, otherwise known as the ''Matngala'' or ''Hermit Hill tribe'', are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, Australia. Language The Madngella spoke Matngele, one of the Eastern Daly languages, now extinct. Country The Madngella lived traditionally in the middle and lower reaches of the Daly River nearby to the Mulluk-Mulluk people. Norman Tindale assigned to them some of tribal land around Hermit Hill, and the area west of the Daly River, placing them to the southeast of the Yunggor people. The Pongaponga lay to their north. Social system In the ''merbok'' system of ceremonial exchange, the Madngella used the words in a way that indicated the coastal provenance of the articles (''ninymer'') exchanged, north-easterly and south-westerly. ''Medrdok''from the former direction was called''pork'' ''padaka'', as opposed to the south-westerly merbok, called ''nim berinken,'' where ''berinken'' is a generic term used of tribes living south-west of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Daly Languages
The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They were: *Eastern Daly ** Matngele ** Kamu These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Macro-Gunwinyguan languages. All are now extinct.Evans, 2003, ''The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia'' Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary items are from Tryon (1968).Tryon, Darrell T. "The Daly River Languages: A Survey". In Aguas, E.F. and Tryon, D. editors, ''Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 3''. A-14:21-49. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1968. : See also *Daly languages The Daly languages are an language area, areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages. They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River (Northern Territory), Daly River in the Northern Territory. Classifi ... References * * {{language fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daly River (Northern Territory)
The Daly River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is part of the Daly Catchment. The Daly River flows from the confluence of the Flora River and Katherine River to its mouth on the Timor Sea. It is one the few major rivers in the Northern Territory that flows all year round. Sustained by groundwater, its dry-season flows are five time larger than any other river in the territory. It is home to more than 90 species of fish. It is best known for its large barramundi making it a popular waterway for recreational fishing. The floodwater carries baitfish which attracts predatory barramundi. The river is also home to the critically endangered largetooth sawfish. It also has eight different turtle species, includes the endangered pig-nosed turtle, more than any other Australian river. History The traditional owners of the river and surrounding area are the Wadjigiynk, Marranunggu, Maranunngu, Malak Malak, Kamu, Warai, Nanggiwumerri, Wagiman, Wardaman people, Wardam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the Northern Territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and various other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and List of country subdivisions by area, the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half the population of Tasmania. The largest population centre is the capital city of Darw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matngele Language
Matngele or Madngele is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory spoken by the Madngella and Yunggor peoples. Classification Tryon (1974) classified Matngele with Kamu, and this is accepted by Dixon (2002) and Bowern (2011), though denied by Harvey (1990). Phonology Vowels Consonants Grammar Matngele has only five simple verbs. These must be combined with coverb A coverb is a word or prefix that resembles a verb or co-operates with a verb. In languages that have the serial verb construction, coverbs are a type of word that shares features of verbs and prepositions. A coverb takes an object or complement ...s in order to form complex verbs. References * * External links Matngeleat thDalylanguages.org website {{Australian Aboriginal languages Eastern Daly languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulluk-Mulluk
The Mulluk-Mulluk, otherwise known as the Malak-Malak, are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, Australia. Language Malak-Malak language, Mulluk-Mulluk is classified as an independent member of the Daly languages, northern Daly languages, and is considered a language isolate. By 2002 it was estimated to have less than 10 speakers. Ecology The Mulluk-Mulluk lived traditionally on the northern side of the Daly River (Northern Territory), Daly River. Social system Stanner studied two particular institutions: the ''merbok'' system of intertribal exchange and the ''kue'', a ceremonial gift exchange which had both a legal and religious function in the local system of marriage. Exchange among aboriginal groups was widely thought to be a mere matter of elementary barter. Stanner argued, instead, that it could involve quite complex systems, and he likened the merbok system he uncovered to the Kula ring, Kula system of exchange described by Bronisław Malinowski amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 at the time of European settlement, shown in his map published in 1940. This map provided the basis of a map published by David Horton in 1996 and widely used in its online form today. Tindale's major work was ''Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits and Proper Names'' (1974). Life Tindale was born on 12 October 1900 in Perth, Western Australia. His family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan. Norman attended the American School in Japan, where his closest friend was Gordon Bowles, a Quaker who, like him, later became an anthropologist. The family returned to Perth in August 1917, and soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yunggor
The Yunggor were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language The Yunggor spoke a dialect of Matngele, one of the Daly languages. The language has died out, and was recorded in the 1960s only from two aborigines who remembered it as a second language. Country According to Norman Tindale, the Yunggor were one of several small tribes, with an estimated of land covering the swampland west of Hermit Hill, and south of the Daly River. People The Yunggor may have been a clan of the Ngolokwangga, a view which seems to be implied, according to Tindale, by the work of Herbert Basedow. Tindale adds however that W. W. H. Stanner, who did intense fieldwork in area some decades later, was of the opinion that the Yunggor were a fully-fledged tribe. Mythology The Yunggor shared the traditional stories of creation, recited on ceremonial occasions, which were common to that area, in which the Wawalag (Wauwaluk) sisters figured prominently and were closely linked to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pongaponga
The Pongaponga were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi .... They may have been a band of the Ngolokwangga. Country Norman Tindale estimated their tribal land's extent at about . They inhabited the area along both banks of the Daly River somewhat inland from the Wogait coastal tribe. Alternative names * ''Pongo-pongo'' * ''Djiramo'' (?) Notes Citations Sources * * * * * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marrithiyal People
The Marrithiyal, also written Marrithiel, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional territory lay south of Darwin from Litchfield National Park and extend to the Daly River in the Northern Territory. They are also known as the Berringen (Berinken, Brinken) people to represent their affiliation and deep connections across the neighbouring South Western Daly region. History Their traditional grounds lay south-west of Darwin, in the heart of Litchfield National Park, in an area which is known as ''Woolaning'', Rakula. Like a dozen other tribes, as the white invasion got underway in the 1880s, the local tribes travelled between Litchfield and the Western Daly region with their remnants either dispersed or crammed into smaller outstations. Many Marrithiel, as the tribe spread out into a variety of locations, some shifting to neighbouring lands, others taking up jobs in Darwin, or working as stockmen on their country Mt. Litchfield cattle station, or drifting into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Dahl
Knut Dahl Knut Dahl (28 October 1871 – 11 June 1951) was a Norwegian zoologist and explorer who made important bird collections in northern Australia. Early years Dahl grew up at Hakadal in Akershus, Norway, where his father was an estate manager. Surrounded by forests, lakes and rivers, Dahl became an excellent shot and a skilled angler. In 1889 he entered the University of Oslo where he studied zoology. In 1893, at the age of 21, he was given the opportunity to conduct a scientific expedition to South Africa and Australia to collect animal specimens for the University's Zoological Museum. In South Africa he occupied himself with some big game hunting as well as the collection of scientific specimens.D.J.D. (1951). Travels in Australia In March 1894 he left Port Natal (Durban), accompanied by his taxidermist Ingel Olsen Holm, and journeyed to Australia where he moved from Adelaide to Sydney and then to Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. From Darwin Dahl and Holm w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Shock
Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply transition to another type of life. One of the most common causes of culture shock involves individuals in a foreign environment. Culture shock can be described as consisting of at least one of four distinct phases: honeymoon, negotiation, adjustment, and adaptation. Common problems include: information overload, language barrier, generation gap, technology gap, skill interdependence, formulation dependency, homesickness (cultural), boredom (job dependency), ethnicity, Race (human categorization), race, skin color, response ability (Cross-cultural capital, cultural skill set). There is no true way to entirely prevent culture shock, as individuals in any society are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, publishing, and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The institute is a leader in ethical research and the handling of culturally sensitive material. The collection at AIATSIS has been built through over 50 years of research and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and is now a source of language and culture revitalisation, native title research, and Indigenous family and community history. AIATSIS is located on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. History The proposal and interim council (1959–1964) In the late 1950s, there was an increasing focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
