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Ngugi people
The Ngugi are an Aboriginal Australian people, one of three Quandamooka peoples, and the traditional inhabitants of Moreton Island.
The Ngugi language was called guwar, a term that, by extension served as one of the names for the people, reflects their word for "no" (gowar). It was mutually intelligible with the other Moreton bay languages: Tom Petrie, who had mastered the Brisbane area Turrbal language could, according to his daughter's reminiscences, understand the speech of Ngugi people from the island. According to Anthony Jefferies, Guwar is a variety of Bundjalung, the population being a residue of speakers of that language who, when the rest of the Bundjalung were forced south as a result of the expansion of the incoming Yugara, much of whose terminology was then adopted into Guwar.
The Ngugi lands covered the entirety of Moreton Island, in their language Mulganpin (Moolgunpin) and covered some 70 square miles (180 km2).
Moreton island has a thin soil cover, which, on the higher ground to the north is interrupted by stretches of swamp land. Fresh water springs were abundant. Wildlife consisted of many varieties of bird, abundant crabs, numerous bandicoots, and large numbers of venomous snakes, among them, death adders, tiger, black, brown and carpet snakes.
The two large sand dunes extending across the south of the island were called Gheebellum and Coonungi.
The Ngugi are considered to be one of three hordes of what are known collectively called the Quandamooka people.
In his archaeological survey over the years 1963-4, Ponosov detected some 72 sites of traditional indigenous habitation on the island. The population of Moreton Island predating European contact is estimated to have been approximately 100, living in groups of 15 to 20. At least five clusters of spacious native huts along the north shore as far as Comboyuro Point (Gnahmoonbilla) were observed by the earliest visitors.
Lancelot Threlkeld, using reports from a castaway who had survived among the Moreton Bay blacks, argued in 1824 that they were far more advanced than the more southern tribes, dwelling in hut settlements that had the appearance of small villages. One important site for habitation was the southern side of the Cape Moreton headland, since this was the only area where outcroppings of sandy ironstone existed. These sites were quarried to manufacture stone implements, some of which they traded with the Nunukul on Stradbroke Island.
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Ngugi people
The Ngugi are an Aboriginal Australian people, one of three Quandamooka peoples, and the traditional inhabitants of Moreton Island.
The Ngugi language was called guwar, a term that, by extension served as one of the names for the people, reflects their word for "no" (gowar). It was mutually intelligible with the other Moreton bay languages: Tom Petrie, who had mastered the Brisbane area Turrbal language could, according to his daughter's reminiscences, understand the speech of Ngugi people from the island. According to Anthony Jefferies, Guwar is a variety of Bundjalung, the population being a residue of speakers of that language who, when the rest of the Bundjalung were forced south as a result of the expansion of the incoming Yugara, much of whose terminology was then adopted into Guwar.
The Ngugi lands covered the entirety of Moreton Island, in their language Mulganpin (Moolgunpin) and covered some 70 square miles (180 km2).
Moreton island has a thin soil cover, which, on the higher ground to the north is interrupted by stretches of swamp land. Fresh water springs were abundant. Wildlife consisted of many varieties of bird, abundant crabs, numerous bandicoots, and large numbers of venomous snakes, among them, death adders, tiger, black, brown and carpet snakes.
The two large sand dunes extending across the south of the island were called Gheebellum and Coonungi.
The Ngugi are considered to be one of three hordes of what are known collectively called the Quandamooka people.
In his archaeological survey over the years 1963-4, Ponosov detected some 72 sites of traditional indigenous habitation on the island. The population of Moreton Island predating European contact is estimated to have been approximately 100, living in groups of 15 to 20. At least five clusters of spacious native huts along the north shore as far as Comboyuro Point (Gnahmoonbilla) were observed by the earliest visitors.
Lancelot Threlkeld, using reports from a castaway who had survived among the Moreton Bay blacks, argued in 1824 that they were far more advanced than the more southern tribes, dwelling in hut settlements that had the appearance of small villages. One important site for habitation was the southern side of the Cape Moreton headland, since this was the only area where outcroppings of sandy ironstone existed. These sites were quarried to manufacture stone implements, some of which they traded with the Nunukul on Stradbroke Island.