The Ngarlawongga, or more properly Ngarla, were an
Aboriginal Australian people of the inland
Mid West region of
Western Australia. They are not to be confused with the
Ngarla
The Ngarla are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their territory, to the west of Port Hedland, at around , describing it as lying along the coast to the west of Solitar ...
who live on the coast.
Country
The Ngarlawongga were the people who inhabited the area of the headwaters of the
Ashburton and
Gascoyne
The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The Gasc ...
rivers, going south to the vicinity of the
Three Rivers and Mulgul. Their eastern extension ran to Ilgarari. In
Norman Tindale's estimation, their tribal territories covered some .
On the Ngarlawongga's boundaries, to their immediate north were the
Mandara, then, running clockwise, the
Wirdinya north-east, followed by the
Wardal
The Wardal were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.
Country
Norman Tindale calculated by inference that the Wardal's lands covered around , from Lake Carnegie running west and no ...
, and the
Madoitja
The Madoitja or Tjupany were an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.
Language
The Madoitja language was one of the Wati languages.
Location
The Madoitja lands, according to an inference from contiguous tribal areas by Norman Tinda ...
south/southeast and the
Watjarri to their south-west. The
Ninanu
The Ninanu were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
Country
According to Norman Tindale, the Ninanu's tribal lands covered roughly on both the Lyons and North Lyons rivers, extending west as far as the ...
lay on their western flank, below the northwestern
Inawongga
The Inawongga were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Country
The Inawongga, in Norman Tindale's estimation, had about of tribal territory, living in the area around the Hardey River and as far south as ...
.
People
The Australian writer
Katharine Susannah Prichard's novel of interracial love,
Coonardoo
''Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow'' is a novel written by the Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard. The novel evocatively depicts the Australian landscape as it was in the late 1920s, in an age when white settlers tried to control more a ...
(1929), was written directly after her stay among the Ngarlawongga while resident on McGuire's pastoral station which was run by local aboriginals. She called them ''Gnarler'' and found the Ngarlawongga both 'poetic' and 'naive'.
Alternative names
* ''Ngalawongga.''
* ''Nalawonga.''
* ''Ngarla-warngga.''
* ''"Southern Pad'ima" Ngalawonga.''
* ''Ngarla.'' (to be distinguished from the
Ngarla
The Ngarla are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their territory, to the west of Port Hedland, at around , describing it as lying along the coast to the west of Solitar ...
of the
De Grey River
The De Grey River is a river located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It was named on 16 August 1861 by the explorer and surveyor Francis Gregory after Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, who was at the time the president of the Royal ...
).
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Mid West (Western Australia)