Tanganekald people
The Tanganekald were an indigenous Australian people of South Australia.
Country
The Tanganekald occupied 750 square miles (1,900 km2), predominantly about the narrow coastal strip along Coorong. Norman Tindale gives the following precise locations, based on detailed work with his informant. Clarence Long (Milerum), Milerum (Clarence Long) the last full blooded adult survivor of the Tangane.[1]
from Middleton south to Twelve Mile Point (north of Kingston); inland only to about inner margin of first inland swamp and dune terrace, the Woakwine or 25 foot (7.5 m.) terrace, usually no more than 5 to 10 miles (8 to 16 km.); on islands in Lake Alexandrina, except eastern and western extremities of Hindmarsh Island; around Meningie at south and of Lake Albert, at Salt Creek and Taratap (Ten Mile Point).[2]
People
The consisted of some 22 hordes.[3]
- Kondoliorn. (lit. 'whale men', composed of kondoli (whale) and -the suffix -orn(a contraction ofkorn meaning 'man, person')[4]
Alternative names
- Tangalun
- Tenggi (Potaruwutj term, actually name of the Coorong itself)
- Tangane (short form), Tanganalun, Tanganarin, Tangani.
- T(h)unga, Thungah.
- Dangani.
- Tenkinyra.
- Milmenrura (a clan name only; often used in early days for the whole tribe, presumably owing to the notoriety associated with their murder of survivors of the shipwrecked Maria), with the following versions: Milmendura, Milmendjuri, Milmain-jericon.
- Kalde (means language).
- Wattatonga (name applied by the Bunganditj, lit. 'men of the evening' because they live to the west).[2]
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Monaghan 2009, pp. 236–238.
- 1 2 Tindale 1974.
- ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 218.
- ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 29.
References
- Monaghan, Paul (2009). "Placenames in the Norman B. Tindale collection of papers" (PDF). In Hercus, Luise; Koch, Harold. Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-naming the Australian Landscape. Australian National University Press. pp. 226–250. ISBN 978-1-921-66608-7.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Tanganekald (SA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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