Guwinmali

The Guwinmali, also recorded as the Koinmerburra or Koinjmal, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the central Queensland coast, whose lands ran from Broad Sound and the Styx River north to Cape Palmerston, taking in St Lawrence and reaching inland to the Coast Range.

They worked the mangrove mudflats of their shoreline in bark canoes and were divided into two moieties, the Yungeru and Witteru, split into four totemic sections named for the eaglehawk, the laughing jackass, the wallaby and the curlew.

Parents betrothed daughters in infancy and the marriage was sealed by a ceremonial mock capture. Their speech, Guwinmal, was a dialect of Darumbal within the Pama-Nyungan family. In 1770 James Cook's Endeavour charted this coast and named Cape Palmerston, at the northern edge of their country.