The Complexity

Potential groups

The below list represents the names assigned by anthropologists who have studied the social structure of Aborignals groups in the 19th and 20th centuries and from which the approaching 1,000,000 Australian who supposidely draw their authority to contribute to and be represented by The Voice.

Some of these names are itteration for supposedly the same Group even some appears as alternate names for other Groups.

The color code helps demonstrate the complexity of Group ID.

The same color hue indicates an iteration for the one Group/Clan.
A different color or hue for the same name indicates multiple application of the name to more than one Group/Clan.

*Clan Groups

Also Known As

Phonetics Class

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[1]. - The above name are from the Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia used by AIATSIS. Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East, Rainforest, Northeast, Eyre, Riverine, Southeast, Spencer and Tasmania); the region of the Groups are depicted in the map in the Encyclopedia.

[2]. - The above name are from Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes. Each also has alternative names listed. In most cases (but not all) the name in the left column "Clan Group" is the main name used by Tindale.

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