A Ngurungaeta is a Woiwurrung head man or tribal leader of clans of the Woiwurrung tribes and Taungurung Ngurai-illum Wurrung.
[1][2] Ngurungaeta held the same tribal standing as an Arweet of the Bunurong and Wathaurong people.
The term became of particular importance as an identifier of senior men prepared to accept Anglo control in the latter part of the 19th century.
It is unlikely that the term was used to express genuine recognition of senior members of traditional groups in the Melbourne area after the 1840s, following the death of Billibellary c. 1846.
[citation needed] Identified later Ngurungaeta include: This Indigenous Australians-related article is a stub.