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Nangiomeri


The Nangiomeri/Nanggumiri were an indigenous Australian people who lived in the area of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.

Nangiomeri is one of the Southern Daly River languages, and considered a dialect of Ngan'gityemerri/Ngaan'giwumerri.

Their traditional grounds lie to the east of those of the Maramanandji and Murrinh-Patha. extending some 1,000 sq. miles, south of the central sector of the Daly river, to the south of the Mulluk-Mulluk and Madngella. They ran along the Flora River up to its junction with the Daly.

Securing food for aboriginal nomads was always a dicey business, and the attraction of areas where Europeans settled, as places where, through kinship with indigenous people employed there, one could obtain surer supplies of food, tobacco and sugar, exercised a powerful influence on tribal shifts in Australia. Around the 1900s, taken in by Bush Telegraph rumours of marvels to be seen at a new gold mine, which had begun to operate at southwards in what is now the Victoria Daly Region they moved there together with the Wagiman, and never looked back to return to their homeland. According to Johannes Falkenberg, one horde of the tribe, known as the Ngargaminjin, assimilated with the Murrinh-Partha after the coming of white colonization.

The Nangiomeri and their allies the Mulluk-Mulluk were bitter enemies of the -Marringar and Marrithiyal tribes, though ceremonial obligations required them to cooperate in crucial ritual circumstances, such as the Dingiri style circumcision initiatory rite, Dingiri being a mythical hunter who sang himself into stone. Their kinship is based on the eight-subsection principle.


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