Pongaponga Explained
The Pongaponga were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. They may have been a band of the Ngolokwangga.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal land's extent at about 200mi2. They inhabited the area along both banks of the Daly River somewhat inland from the Wogait coastal tribe.
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Citations
Sources
- Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia . Basedow . Herbert . Herbert Basedow . . Adelaide . 1907 . 31 . 1–62 .
- Book: Dahl, Knut
. In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land . Knut Dahl . 1926 . P. Allen & Sons . London . 72–98 .
- Book: Eylmann, Erhard
. Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien . 1908 . D.Reimer . Berlin .
- On the Manners, Customs, etc., of some Tribes of the Aborigines, in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia . Foelsche . Paul . Paul Foelsche . . 1895 . 24 . 190–198 . 2842215 .
- Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia . Mackillop . Donald . Mary MacKillop . . Adelaide . 1893 . 17 . 254–264 . PDF .
- Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued) . Stanner . W. E. H. . William Edward Hanley Stanner . . June 1934 . 4 . 4 . 458–471 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00122.x . 27976164 .
- Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett
. Pongaponga (NT) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pongaponga.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .