The Maridan were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language edit
Maridan belongs to the Western branch of the Daly River language family
Country edit
The Maridan's land extended over some 100 square miles (260 km2), inland, along the marshlands north of the middle section of the Moyle River.[1]
Alternative names edit
- Murindan.[1]
Notes edit
Citations edit
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 230.
Sources edit
- Falkenberg, Johannes (1962) [First published 1948]. Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. George Allen & Unwin.
- Stanner, W. E. H. (June 1933a). "The Daly River Tribes: a Report of Field Work in North Australia". Oceania. 3 (4): 377–405. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb01674.x. JSTOR 40327429.
- Stanner, W. E. H. (December 1933b). "Ceremonial economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella tribes of the Daly River". Oceania. 4 (2): 156–175. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00098.x. JSTOR 40327457.
- Stanner, W. E. H. (December 1933c). "A Note on Djamindjung Kinship and Totemism". Oceania. 6 (4): 441–451. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1936.tb00204.x. JSTOR 40327576.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Maridan (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.