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 [River (Western Australia)|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 PiarngongoTindale 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
AndedjaAndidja, AndadjaKalariKarunjie? Kundjanan, KandjananMunumbaraMunumburuPiarngongo TaibTaibange ? UllumbulooWular WuluSource: