Mudburra

{{short description|Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}}

The '''Mudburra''', also spelt '''Mudbara''' and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

==Language== {{main|Mudburra language}} Mudburra is one of the far eastern forms of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.{{sfn|Meakins|Nordlinger|2014|p=1}}

==Country== The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the Murranji Track (the Ghost Road of the Drovers) and held in Tindale's estimation some {{convert|10,000|mi2|km2}} of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong River<ref>[http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=209409&cmd=sp&s=tennant%20creek&m=0&st=NT&c=1&x=131.45517&y=-16.802805&w=42474&mpsec=0 Armstrong River]</ref> and the upper Victoria River at a place called ''Tjambutjambulani''. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay at [http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=250547&cmd=sp Cattle Creek]. In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters to the Camfield River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=232}}

== Alternative names == * ''Madbara'' * ''Moodburra, Mootburra'' * ''Mudbara'' * ''Mudbera'' * ''Mudbra'' * ''Mudbura'' * ''Mudburra'' * ''Mulpira'' (Iliaura exonym)

Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=232}}

==See also== *Ngumpit, a name used by the Gurindji, Malngin, Bilinara, Mudburra and Ngarinyman peoples to refer to themselves as a group *Wave Hill walk-off, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967

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==Sources== {{refbegin}} *{{Cite journal | title = The Wombya Organization of the Australian Aborigines | last = Mathews | first = R. H. | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews | journal = American Anthropologist | date = July–September 1900 | volume = 2 | issue = 3 | pages = 494–501 | doi = 10.1525/aa.1900.2.3.02a00050 | jstor = 658964 }} *{{Cite journal | title = Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Northern Territory | last = Mathews | first = R. H. | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews | journal = Queensland Geographical Journal | year = 1901 | volume = 16 | pages = 69–90 | url = https://archive.org/details/queenslandgeogra15roya }} *{{cite book| title = A Grammar of Bilinarra: An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory | last1 = Meakins | first1 = Felicity | last2 = Nordlinger | first2 = Rachel | year = 2014 | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YYDoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 | isbn = 978-1-614-51274-5 }} *{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of Australian Tribes Part II (Continued) | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = A. R. | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Oceania | date = October–December 1930 | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = 322–341 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1930.tb01652.x | jstor = 40327330 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Mutpura (NT) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = Australian National University | chapter-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320015719/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/mutpura.htm | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 }} *{{Cite journal | title = The Aljawara and Their Territory | last = Yallop | first = C. L. | journal = Oceania | year = 1969 | volume = 39 | issue = 3 | pages = 187–197 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1969.tb01005.x | jstor = 40329775 }} {{refend}}

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