Yaroinga


The Yaroinga are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

Yaroinga country covered, according to Tindale's estimation, some, straddling both the Northern Territory and Queensland, at such places in the latter state as Urandangi and Headingly, and as far east as Mount Isa. Their northern limits were around Lake Nash. Westwards they were present at Barkly Downs, Mount Hogarth and Argadargada.

Language

They spoke the Ayerrerenge dialect, regarded as a variation of Andegerebinha, of the Upper Arrernte language group, and now extinct.

Social organization

The Yaroinga were divided into clans, some of whose names are recorded.