Pongaponga
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The Pongaponga were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. They may have been a band of the Ngolokwangga.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=235}}
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal land's extent at about {{convert|200|mi2|km2}}. They inhabited the area along both banks of the Daly River somewhat inland from the Wogait coastal tribe.
Alternative names
- Pongo-pongo
- Djiramo (?){{efn|According to Herbert Basedow this ethnonym referred to a horde of the Mulukmuluk{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=235}}}}
Notes
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=Citations=
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Sources
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- {{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia
| last = Basedow | first = Herbert
| author-link = Herbert Basedow
| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
| location = Adelaide
| year = 1907 | volume = 31 | pages = 1–62
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54644#page/13/mode/1up
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- {{Cite book| title = In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land
| last = Dahl | first = Knut
| author-link = Knut Dahl
| year = 1926
| publisher = P. Allen & Sons | location = London
| pages = 72–98
| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101538/1/Dahl_In%20savage_Australia_Complete_Reduced.pdf
}}
- {{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien
| last = Eylmann | first = Erhard
| year = 1908
| publisher = D.Reimer | location = Berlin
| url = https://archive.org/download/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = On the Manners, Customs, etc., of some Tribes of the Aborigines, in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia
| last = Foelsche | first = Paul
| author-link = Paul Foelsche
| journal = The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
| year = 1895 | volume = 24 | pages = 190–198
| jstor = 2842215
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- {{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia
| last = Mackillop | first = Donald
| author-link = Mary MacKillop
| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
| location = Adelaide
| year = 1893 | volume = 17 | pages = 254–264
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54642#page/268/mode/1up
| format = PDF
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- {{Cite journal | title = Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued)
| last = Stanner | first = W. E. H.
| author-link = William Edward Hanley Stanner
| journal = Oceania
| date = June 1934 | volume = 4 | issue = 4 | pages = 458–471
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00122.x | jstor = 27976164
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- {{Cite book| chapter = Pongaponga (NT)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = Australian National University
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pongaponga.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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