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Arunta

American  
[uh-ruhn-tuh] / əˈrʌn tə /

noun

plural

Aruntas,

plural

Arunta
  1. Aranda.


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The frigate Arunta passed through the South China Sea with an Australian navy supply ship two weeks ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2015

Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver.

From Time Magazine Archive

It forms a staple article of diet amongst the Arunta and other tribes of Central Australia.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

The Arunta reckon kinship in the male line: their phratry names they have forgotten, in place of phratries eight matrimonial classes regulate marriage.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Among the advanced Arunta, now, a man may speak freely to his elder sisters; to younger sisters, or “tribal sisters,” he may not speak, “or only at such a distance that the features are indistinguishable.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various