Meanings
- pluralplural onlyAn indigenous people of Western Australia.
1994, Alan Dench, Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia The Martuthunira visited the islands of the Dampier Archipelago, which they presumably shared with the Yapurarra/Pijurru, and the Mary Anne Group.
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[…] so the Mardudhunera, neighbors of the Ngaluma, neighbors of the Kariera, have a relationship system differing from that of the Kariera, but corresponding to that of the Aranda […]
1916, A. A. Goldenweiser, Reconstruction from Survivals in West Australia, in American Anthropologist, Vol. 18, No. 4
- Their language.
- not comparableOf the Martuthunira or their language.
1994, Alan Dench, Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia The reported location and extent of Martuthunira territory also differs from one description to another.
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They are called Noanamaronga by the Mardudhunera tribe.
1912, A. R. Brown, The Distribution of Native Tribes in Part of Western Australia, in Man, Vol. 12
Origin
From Martuthunira.
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