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Ngawait (SA)
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| | Location | Banks of Murray River from between Boggy Flat and Penn Reach to near Loxton; on western side of Barmera Lake; a small tribe with three or more hordes. One of the small tribes collectively called the Meru or Maru. They had also a southwestern point of access to the Murray River at a place called Wutjuwutj, whose geographical position has been identified lately by an aboriginal as between Nildottie and Devon Downs on the plateau. |
| Co-ordinates | 140°10'E x 34°15'S |
| Area | 1,600 sq. m. (3,900 sq. km) |
| References | Eyre, 1845; Angas, 1847; Taplin, 1879; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6569), Brown, 1918; Tindale, 1927 MS, 1939, 1940, and MS; Radcliffe-Brown, 1930. |
| Alternative Names | Ngawaitjung, Nyauaitj, Nauait, Nanait (misprint), Ngawaitjung (language name), Ngawijung, Narwejung, Nar-wijjong, Narwijjerook, Eritark (Nganguruku term), Nja-watjurk (Maraura term), Meru (general term means man, applied to several tribes), Wem:ara (Ngaiawang term), Barmerara Meru (horde at Barmera), Muljulpero maru (a horde). |
This information is reproduced from NB Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Please be aware that much of the data relating to Aboriginal language group distribution and definition has undergone revision since 1974. Please note also that this catalogue represents Tindale's attempt to depict Aboriginal tribal distribution at the time of European contact. |
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Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations
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Identifier AA 338/1/33/1
Date 1931 - 1934, 30 July 1925, 2 July 1927, November 1930 - 16 April 1937 with gaps, 25 March 1940, 1976
Quantity 3.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.8x26.9cm, 374 pages
Series AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research
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Identifier AA 338/7/1/19
Date c. 1931 - c. 1991
Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 12.8 cm of cards
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Identifier AA 338/7/1/20
Date c. 1931 - c. 1991
Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 13.3 cm of cards
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Identifier AA 338/7/1/43
Date c. 1924 - c. 1991
Quantity 16.5 cm, 1 shoebox, approx. 16.7 cm of cards
Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)
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Identifier AA 338/15/165
Date 1964, date in annotation; map printed 1959
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 56.5x86.0 cm
Series AA338/16 - Maps - South East of South Australia
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Identifier AA 338/16/44
Date 1965 - ?, date of printing date of annotation unknown
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 77.5x82.5 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/41
Date 1964 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
Series AA338/23 - Maps - Sketch maps showing Aboriginal 'tribes'
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Identifier AA 338/23/5
Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 38.5x45.0 cm
Series AA338/24 - Maps - Hundreds and counties, South East of South Australia
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Identifier AA 338/24/108
Date c. 1968 - 1986, approximate range of annotations; map printed 1968
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 73.0x94.0 cm
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