Wilawila

The Wilawila are an indigenous Australian tribe of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Name

gave "wilawila" as the proper tribal ethnonym, but noted that, according to reports by the missionary Theodore Hernández, the same group appeared to bear an alternative ethnonym, namely "Taib", which Tindale took to be a Wilawila horde.

Country

According to Tindale, the Wilawila's tribal domains extended over, along and around the Carson and middle Drysdale rivers, stretching from Mount Connelly as far south as the lower Gibb and Durack rivers.

Social organization

The Wilawila were divided into tribal subgroupings or clans/hordes, of which the following names survive.

Taib
Munumbara
Kalari
Andedja
Piarngongo

Tindale also speaks of a Wilawila group, the Tjawurungari/Tawandjangango, on the Osborne Islands, speaking a lighter dialect of the language spoken by the Kambure.

Alternative names

Andedja
Andidja, Andadja
Kalari
Karunjie
? Kundjanan, Kandjanan
Munumbara
Munumburu
Piarngongo
Taib
Taibange
? Ullumbuloo
Wular
Wulu

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