Courtesy of the former Katherine Language Centre, here is a skin relations chart with neigbouring Ngarinyman names. Wardaman are related but different. This is a non-Indigenous representation of how the skin names are related to each other. On this chart Js are male, Ns are female. Single lines are brother/sister. Double lines are husband/wife. Arrows are mother-to-daughter or father-to-son.
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• The Role of Family & Kinship in Aboriginal Culture: Watarrka
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Yidumduma Bill Harney is an Elder and last Senior Male Aboriginal custodian of the Wardaman people of the Victoria Flora, and Katherine River Districts of the Northern Territory of Australia. Born in MUY MUY clan country in the early 1930’s Yidumduma is of the YUBULYAWAN clan.
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