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The ethnonym Murrgin gained currency after its extensive use in a book by the American anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner, [1] whose study of the Yolngu, A Black Civilization: a Social Study of an Australian Tribe (1937) quickly assumed the status of an ethnographical classic, considered by R. Lauriston Sharp the "first adequately rounded out descriptive picture of an Australian Aboriginal community."
Yolŋu Matha (IPA: [ˈjuːlŋu ˈmat̪a]), meaning the 'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.
Owned by the traditional Aboriginal owners, the Yolngu people, it is a place rich in culture with Yolngu maintaining strong ties with their land, religion and traditions. Rather than the name of a clan or family group, Yolngu is the word that Aboriginal people from East Arnhem Land, including the Gove Peninsula, use to refer to themselves.
Gali was a Yolngu Mala leader and Gälpu clan representative, a clan group of the Dhuwa moiety, as well as a prominent member of the Galiwin'ku Uniting Church. [2] He was best known for his Morning Star poles which have been featured in international exhibitions in London and the United States and for his unique melding of traditional Yolngu ...
The Yirrkala bark petitions, sent by the Yolngu people, an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, to the Australian Parliament in 1963, were the first traditional documents prepared by Indigenous Australians that were recognised by the Australian Parliament, and the first documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law.
Barnumbirr as a Morning Star is a creator spirit in Yolngu culture. [2] Her story is part of the Dhuwa moiety. [7] Yolngu songlines depict Barnumbirr guiding the Djanggawul sisters as they row a canoe from the mythical island of Bralgu (the home of Wangarr, the Great Creator Spirit) to discover Australia [3] and bring Madayin Law to the Dhuwa people. [8]
Julunggul, Yolngu rainbow snake goddess associated with initiation, fertility, rebirth and water; Karora, creator god; Kunapipi, a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes; Malingee, malignant nocturnal spirit; Mamaragan, lightning deity; Mangar-kunjer-kunja, Arrernte lizard deity who created humans; Manuriki, god of beauty
Pages in category "Yolngu" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...