Madngella
The Madngella, otherwise known as the Matngala,[1] are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, Australia.
Ecology
The Madngella lived traditionally in the middle and lower reaches of the Daly River nearby to the Mulluk-Mulluk people.[2]
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.Medrdokfrom the former direction was calledpork[lower-alpha 1] padaka, as opposed to the south-westerly merbok, callednim berinken,whereberinken is a generic term used of tribe(s) living south-west of the Madngella.[3]
History
The Madngella tribe had experienced intense culture shock in the wake of white settlement, whose effects over 50 years, according to who studied them in the early 1930s, had been to disintegrate many of their attachments to the traditional way of life.[2]
Notes and references
- ↑ pork was a variety of hooked spear which the Madngella obtained by cultural diffusion from the north-east
Notes
- ↑ Green 1989, p. xiv, map.
- 1 2 Stanner 1933, p. 156.
- ↑ Stanner 1933, p. 158.
References
- Green, Ian (September 1989). Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory. ANU PhD.
- Stanner, W. E. H. (December 1933). "Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary Paper". Oceania. 4 (2): 156–175.
- Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1934). "Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued)". Oceania. 4 (4): 458–471.