Gunavidji Explained

The Gunavidji people, also written Kunibidji and Kunibídji and also known as the Ndjébbana, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Language

See main article: Djeebbana language. The Gunavidji speak Ndjébbana, which is one of the Maningrida languages.

Country

Gunavidji traditional lands extend over some 500mi2 in and around the valley along the Liverpool River in and as far at the point where the Tomkinson River flows into the mangrove swamps. Their main base is at Maningrida township.

Cultural practices

They do not practise circumcision.

Alternative names

• Gunaviji
• Gunawitji
• Gunabidji
• Gunabwidji
• Gunjibidji
• Witji

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Talking books for children's home use in a minority Indigenous Australian language context . Auld . Glenn . Educational Technology . 2007 . 23 . 1 . 48–67 .
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• Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia . Capell . A. . Arthur Capell . . 12 . 4 . 364–392 . June 1942 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1942.tb00365.x . 40327959 .
• How Some Murngin Men Marry Ten Wives: The Marital Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Structures . Keen . Ian . Ian Keen . . 17 . 4 . 620–642 . New Series . December 1982 . 10.2307/2802037 . 2802037 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Gunavidji (NT) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/gunavidji.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/gunavidji.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .