Alura people

Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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