Alura people

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

Country

The Alura inhabited the area, estimated at 900 square miles (2,300 km²), around the northern side of the lower Victorian river and extending east from its mouth towards the vicinity of Bradshaw.^[1]

Social organisation

According to the early ethnographer Robert Hamilton Mathews, the Alura had an eight-section class system of the type he called Wombya.^[2]

Language

There is no linguistic data available on the Alura people.^[3]

Alternative names

Allura
Hallurra^[4]
Nallura^[1]

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b Tindale 1974, p. 220.
^ Mathews 1900, pp. 494–501, 498.
^ N5 Alura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Mathews 1900, p. 498.

Sources

Mathews, R. H. (July–September 1900). "Wombya organization of the Australian aborigines". American Anthropologist. 2 (3): 494–501. doi:10.1525/aa.1900.2.3.02a00050. JSTOR 658964.
Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Alura (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-7081-0741-6. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020.

[FOOTNOTETindale1974220-1] Tindale 1974, p. 220.

[FOOTNOTEMathews1900494–501,_498-2] Mathews 1900, pp. 494–501, 498.

[3] N5 Alura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[FOOTNOTEMathews1900498-4] Mathews 1900, p. 498.

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