Kungarakany

The Kungarakany people, also spelt Koongurrukuñ, Kungarrakany, Kungarakan and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country[]

Norman Tindale estimated their tribal lands covered approximately 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²). They included the inland area north-east of Mount Litchfield, around the mid-waters of the Reynolds River and the headwaters of the Adelaide River. Their north-eastern limits were close to Rum Jungle and Batchelor.^[1] Kungarakan traditional land encompasses Adelaide River, Batchelor, Rum Jungle, Finniss River, Litchfield Park, and Berry Springs, including the Territory Wildlife Park.

Language[]

Alternative names[]

Gunerakan
Kangarraga
Kangarranga
Warnunger
Ungnakan^[1]

Notable people[]

Marlon Motlop, footballer and musician^[2] (on his mother's side^[3])

Notes[]

Citations[]

^ ^a ^b Tindale 1974, p. 229.
^ Jenke, Tyler (6 March 2021). "MRLN x RKM, Vika and Linda, and Midnight Oil Continue A Stellar WOMADelaide". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
^ "AFL's Marlon Motlop and Rulla Kelly-Mansell team up for a new musical project" (Audio). ABC Radio National. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

Sources[]

Basedow, Herbert (1907). "Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia". Journal of the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 31: 1–62.
Foelsche, Paul (1895). "On the Manners, Customs, &c., of some Tribes of the Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 24: 190–198. JSTOR 2842215.
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. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00098.x. JSTOR 40327457.
Stretton, W. G. (1893). "Customs, rites and superstitions of the aboriginal tribes of the Gulf of Carpentaria" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Adelaide Branch). 17: 227–253.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kungarakan (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.

[FOOTNOTETindale1974229-1] Tindale 1974, p. 229.

[2] Jenke, Tyler (6 March 2021). "MRLN x RKM, Vika and Linda, and Midnight Oil Continue A Stellar WOMADelaide". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

[radiofeb2021-3] "AFL's Marlon Motlop and Rulla Kelly-Mansell team up for a new musical project" (Audio). ABC Radio National. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

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