Dangboni

The Dangbon, more often called Dalabon, are an Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory; Dangbon is the name given by their Kune and Mayali neighbours, and the people themselves traditionally had no single collective name. Norman Tindale placed their country east of the Liverpool River's headwaters, around the sources of the Cadell and Mann rivers.

Semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers of mixed savannah and forest, they moved with a three-season round of wet, dry and hot build-up. Their society was ordered by eight subsections built on Dua and Yirritja patrimoieties and matrilineal descent, and together with neighbouring tribes they staged the Gunabibi and Yabuduruwa ceremonies in alternating years.

Their Gunwinyguan language is closest to Kunwinjku and Kune; in their cosmology the kingfisher stole fire from the crocodile, and the ancestral Nakoorkko beings laid down the law embedded in their country.