[2] The surviving vocabulary of the Manbarra language, mainly collected by Ernest Gribble in 1932, indicates that it had a roughly 50% lexical overlap with Nyawaygi.
[3] Another language was also spoken on the island, Buluguyban which was mutually intelligible with Manbarra,[4][5] and may have been a dialect name, like Mulgu, Wulgurukaba, Coonambella, and Nhawalgaba.
[10] Tambo (Kukamunburra),[11] a Manbarra man was shipped by the showman R. A. Cunningham to the United States in 1883, in response to a call by P.T.
[12] His mummified remains were first put on exhibition in a dime museum[11] and then stored in the basement of a Cleveland funeral parlour and were only discovered a century later when the business closed down.
His reburial there according to traditional funeral rites that had fallen into abeyance for decades played an important role in the cultural renewal and reconsolidation of Manbarra identity, and also that of the Bwgaman.