Maduwongga


The Maduwongga are an indigenous Australian people of Western Australia.

Language

The language spoken by the Maduwongga was called Kabal.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Maduwongga tribal territory extended over some, ranging westwards from Pinjin on Lake Rebecca as far as Mulline, including the area a few miles south of Menzies, where their borders with the Ngurlu ran, over to Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Kanowna, Kurnalpi, and Siberia. Ecologically they lived in country marked by mallee Eucalypt species.

History

According to oral traditions picked up by ethnographers, the Maduwongga may have moved in from an original homeland further east, and displaced the Kalamaia, westwards beyond Bullabulling.

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