Ngambaa
The Ngamba are an Australian Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Language
[edit | edit source]The Ngamba language is poorly described because little has been transmitted of its nature. It is generally believed to have been similar to Gumbaynggirr.[1]
Country
[edit | edit source]Ngamba territory comprised some 900 square miles (2,300 km2) from Port Macquarie and the vicinity of Rollands Plains south to the Manning River. The inland extension has not been ascertained.[2]
People
[edit | edit source]A few remnants of the original tribe were attested as still living in 1929, when A.R. Radcliffe-Brown described them as lingering on with descendants of the Ngaku and Daingatti.[3] According to the reminiscences of Harry Buchanan, they had been systematically and savagely exterminated by the Australian native police.[4]
Customs
[edit | edit source]The Ngamba exploited the mangrove species Avicennia marina for its bark in order to fashion their military shields.[5]
Alternative names
[edit | edit source]- Ngambar
- Ngeunbah[2]
Notes
[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ^ Eades 1979, pp. 249, 251.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974.
- ^ Radcliffe-Brown 1929, pp. 400, 407.
- ^ Eades 1979, p. 251.
- ^ Duke 2006, p. 22.
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