Ngarinyin

The Ngarinyin, or Ngarinjin, are an Aboriginal people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, whose country stretches inland from around Derby to the King River and the Gibb River country; on their own lands they call themselves the Wilinggin people. Their language is one of the three Worrorran tongues alongside Worrorra and Wunambal.

Together with the Worrorra and Wunambal they form the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc, whose religion centres on the Wandjina, cloud and rain spirits painted on cave walls, some of the Kimberley paintings having been dated to roughly four thousand years ago; the images were periodically repainted to renew their life-giving power, alongside the older Gwion Gwion tradition of rock art.