The Dhuwala (Duala, Du:ala) are an

indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

people of eastern

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in the

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Country

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stated that the Dhuwala's lands were basically coextensive with those assigned to the

Dhuwal The Dhuwal are an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory Language Dhuwal belongs to the Yolŋu-Matha branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family Country The Dhuwal were described by Norman Tindale in 1974 as one o ...

, the two peoples inhabiting the same territory but being distinguished by linguistic differences, moiety type, and clan estate localities. More specifically, he placed them northeast of an imaginary lines linking between Castlereagh Bay and Port Bradshaw, Cape Shield, adding that they also could be found as far south as the

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Social Organisation

Whereas the Dhuwal clan structure was exclusively of the ''Dua''

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type, by a complementary logic, that of the Dhuwala clans, seven in number, all belonged to the Yirritja moiety. * 1. ''Kupapuingu.'' * 2. ''Kujamirilili.'' (Guyamirrilili, Gwijamil, Gwiyamil). * 3. ''Gumatj.'' (Gomaidj, Gumadji, Komaits, Gumaitj, Gomaid). * 4. ''Manggalili.'' * 5. ''Makarwanalmiri.'' (Makarrwanhalmirri, Mugarganalmiri). * 6. ''Wobulkara.'' (Wulkara, Wobulgarra, Wowulkarra, Obulgara, Wolgara). * 7. ''Madarpa.'' (Mararba, Madarrpa, Maderpa, Jithuwa, Jiduwa, Malarbardjuradj, Malarrbartjuray).

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* {{Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory Yolngu