Material Culture of the North Wellesley Islands

This monograph, written by Professor Paul Memmott, provides an ethnographic description of the material culture traditionally employed by the Aboriginal people of the North Wellesley Islands. These islands are located in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria and are occupied by two Indigenous groups ¿ the Lardil and the Yangkaal. A third group, the Kaiadilt, occupy the South Wellesley Islands and a fourth group, the Ganggalida are on the adjacent mainland. This paper focuses on the Lardil who are the traditional owners for Mornington Island or Gununa (which is by far the largest of the islands), as well as Sydney Island (Langunganji) and Wallaby Island (Lingunganji).