Aboriginal Australian people of north-west Queensland
The Nguburinji people, also written Ngoborindi , Oborindi and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands lie in northwest Queensland .
Country
According to Norman Tindale , the Nguburinji lands extended over 3,100 square miles (8,000 km2 ) taking in the southern headwaters of the Gregory River . They were also present at what is the World Heritage fossil site of Riversleigh , Gregory Downs , and Mount Margaret. Their northern boundaries reached up to Lawn Hill Creek and Punjaub.
Their land lay to the south of the Yukulta / Ganggalidda , west of the Mingin people , east of the Waanyi , and north of the Injilarija (whose lands the Waanyi occupied around 1880, when the Injilarija became extinct ).
Social system
According to Lauriston Sharp , the Nguburinji social organisation belonged to the Laierdila typology of the Australian system of kinship characterised by the Mara type of semi-moieties with a segmentary lineage , and had eight sub-sections organised as unnamed patrilineal semi-moieties and moieties.
History of contact
Over time, after the advent of European colonisation , the Nguburinji shifted to the Wakabunga country around Morstone Downs .
Language
Nguburinji (Ngubirindi) is regarded as a dialect of the Yukulta (Ganggalida) language . It is in the Tangkic language group .[ 7]
Alternative names
Ngoborundji, Ngoboringi
Oborindi, Oboroondi, Obor-indi
Source Tindale 1974 , p. 183:
Notes
Citations
Sources
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