Kunwinjku people
The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu
Language
They traditionally speak the
Country
Their original heartland is said to have been in the hilly terrain south of Goulburn Island and their frontier with the Maung running just south of Tor Rock. Their northern extension approached Sandy Creek, while they were also present south-east at the head of Cooper's Creek and part of the King River.[3] In Norman Tindale's scheme, the Kunwinjku were allotted a tribal territory of around 2,800 square miles (7,300 km2) in the area south of Jungle Creek and on the headwaters of the East Alligator River.[4] The Gumader swamps near Junction Bay and the creeks east of Oenpelli/Awunbelenja (now Gunbalanya) also formed part of their land.[5]
Alternative names
- Gunwinggu
- Gunwingu
- Gunwingo
- Wengi, Wengei, Wengej
- Gundeidjeme
- Gundjeipmi
- Kulunglutji, Kulunglutchi
- Gundjeibmi, Gundjajeimi, Gundeijeme, Gundeidjeme
- Margulitban
- Unigangk, Urnigangg.[a]
- Koorungo
- Neinggu/Neiŋgu. (exonym)[7]
- Mangaridji
- Mangeri.[4][b]
Customs
Dzamalag was a form of ritualised ceremonial exchange or bartering practised by the Gunwinggu people.[8]
Notes
- ^ Tindale's source, Arthur Capell, actually wrote Uningangk[6]
- ^ Again Capell uses Mangeri to denote a distinct language group from the Gunwinggu[6]
Citations
- ^ "Nawu Njale? About". Bininj Kunwok: Kunwok dja mankarre kadberre—our language, our culture. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ Bininj Kunwok dictionary.
- ^ Elkin, Berndt & Berndt 1951, pp. 253–254.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 226.
- ^ Elkin, Berndt & Berndt 1951, p. 254.
- ^ a b Capell 1942, p. 367.
- ^ Elkin, Berndt & Berndt 1951, p. 253.
- ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2.
Sources
- JSTOR 40327959.
- JSTOR 40328302.
- Garde, Murray. "bininj". Bininj Kunwok Online dictionary. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- Hiatt, L. R. (1965). Kinship and conflict: a study of an aboriginal community in northern Arnhem Land (PDF). Australian National University Press.
- S2CID 259735456.
- Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Spencer, Baldwin (1928). Wanderings in wild Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Harper & Brothers.