Kunwinjku people

 ( Aboriginal Peoples Of The Northern Territory ) 

The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Aboriginal people, one of several groups within the Bininj people, who live around West Arnhem Land to the east of Darwin, Northern Territory. Kunwinjku people generally refer to themselves as "Bininj" (meaning people, or Aboriginal people) in much the same way that Yolŋu people refer to themselves as "Yolŋu".

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Language They traditionally speak the Kunwinjku language.

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Country Their original heartland is said to have been in the hilly terrain south of Goulburn Islands and their frontier with the Maung people 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. In Norman Tindale's scheme, the Kunwinjku were allotted a tribal territory of around in the area south of Jungle Creek and on the headwaters of the Alligator Rivers. The Goomadeer River near Junction Bay and the creeks east of Oenpelli/ Awunbelenja (now Gunbalanya) also formed part of their land.

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Alternative names

• Gunwinggu
• Gunwingu
• Gunwingo
• Wengi, Wengei, Wengej
• Gundeidjeme
• Gundjeipmi
• Kulunglutji, Kulunglutchi
• Gundjeibmi, Gundjajeimi, Gundeijeme, Gundeidjeme
• Margulitban
• Unigangk, Urnigangg
• Koorungo
• Neinggu/Neiŋgu (Maung people exonym)
• Mangaridji
• Mangeri

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Customs Dzamalag was a form of ritualised ceremonial exchange or practised by the Gunwinggu people.

David Graeber (2025). 9781933633862, Melville House. ISBN 9781933633862

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Notes

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Citations

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Sources

• Norman Barnett Tindale (1974). 9780708107416, Australian National University. ISBN 9780708107416

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