- Source: Wurango
The Wurango or Wurrugu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Country
The Wurango's tribal lands encompassed about 500 square miles (1,300 km2) around the western end of the Cobourg Peninsula including Port Essington.
People
Crawford Pasco described the Wurango as he found them in 1838 as numerous, and of very good health since many reached the venerable age of 70.
Social organisation
Norman Tindale speculated that mentions of the Tji and Jalo in this area clearly referring to the Wurango probably denoted hordes. If so, then he classified their respective localities as follows:
Tji, a Wurango horde located at the western end of the Peninsula.
Ja:loa Wurango horde in Port Essington.
The following clan marriage sections are said to have existed:
Manderojelli
Manburlgeat
Mandrowilli
Alternative names
Auwulwarwak
Ja:lo (ja:lo = 'no')
(?) Limba-Karadjee (See Iwaidja)
Wa:reidbug, Woreidbug
Warooko
Wurrunga, Wurrango
Wuru:ku, U:ru:ku
Yarlo
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 238
Some words
naween (father)
noyoke (mother)
Source: Pasco 1886, p. 269
Notes
= Citations
=Sources
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Wurango
- Wurrugu language
- List of Australian Aboriginal group names
- Port Essington
- List of Indigenous peoples
- Iwaidja people
- Oitbi
