Wilingura

The Wilingura otherwise known as the Wilangarra, were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

The Wilingura inhabited the land between the Cox River and Nutwood Downs. Norman Tindale estimated their territory as covering some 7,500 square miles (19,000 km²), taking in the Strangways River and the upper Hodgson River, and running west to the vicinity of Birdum (Pine Creek).

Alternative names

Willongera
Leewillungarra
Willangan
Wilungwara
Wilinggura

Notes

Citations

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.
Dickson, Greg (2015). Marra and Kriol: the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary (PhD thesis). Australian National University.
"Map of Cox River, NT". Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
"Map of Nutwood Downs, NT". Digital Atlas Pty Limited. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
Spencer, Sir Baldwin; Gillen, Francis J. (1904). Northern Tribes of Central Australia (PDF). Macmillan Publishers.
Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
Stretton, W. G. (1893). "Customs, rites and superstitions of the aboriginal tribes of the Gulf of Carpentaria" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17: 227–253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wilingura(NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.

[FOOTNOTEDickson201541-1] Dickson 2015, p. 41.

[FOOTNOTEDAPL:_Cox_River-2] DAPL: Cox River.

[FOOTNOTEDAPL:Nutwood_Downs-3] DAPL:Nutwood Downs.

[FOOTNOTETindale1974238-4] 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 238.