The Pongaponga were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. They may have been a band of the Ngolokwangga.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal land's extent at about 200 square miles (520 km). They inhabited the area along both banks of the Daly River somewhat inland from the Wogait coastal tribe.
Alternative names
- Pongo-pongo
- Djiramo. (?)
Notes
- According to Herbert Basedow this ethnonym referred to a horde of the Mulukmuluk
Citations
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 235.
Sources
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- Mackillop, Donald (1893). "Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17. Adelaide: 254–264.
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- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Pongaponga (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.