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The Wurango or Wurrugu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Country
The Wurango's tribal lands encompassed about 500 square miles (1,300 km2) around the western end of the Cobourg Peninsula including Port Essington.[1]
People
Crawford Pasco described the Wurango as he found them in 1838 as numerous, and of very good health since many reached the venerable age of 70.[2]
Social organisation
Norman Tindale speculated that mentions of the Tji and Jalo in this area clearly referring to the Wurango probably denoted hordes. If so, then he classified their respective localities as follows:
- Tji, a Wurango horde located at the western end of the Peninsula
- Ja:lo, a Wurango horde in Port Essington[1]
The following clan marriage sections are said to have existed:[3][a]
- Manderojelli
- Manburlgeat
- Mandrowilli
Alternative names
- Auwulwarwak
- Ja:lo (ja:lo = 'no')
- (?) Limba-Karadjee[b] (See Iwaidja)
- Wa:reidbug, Woreidbug
- Warooko
- Wurrunga, Wurrango
- Wuru:ku, U:ru:ku
- Yarlo
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 238
Some words
- naween (father)
- noyoke (mother)
Source: Pasco 1886, p. 269
Notes
Sources
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