Rembarngan

The Rembarrnga, also spelt Rembarunga and recorded in older sources as Maiadi or Maieli, are an Aboriginal people of central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, toward the Roper River. Their language is a non-Pama-Nyungan tongue of the Gunwinyguan family, divided into the Galduyh, Gikkik and Mappurn dialects.

Ceremony lay at the heart of their material culture: dancers carried animal figures built from a paperbark or grass core bound with bark-fibre string, and took on the identity of the Ancestor represented. The fibre figures known as djawurn-djawurn, made in the same manner but in human form, were left at abandoned campsites with a raised arm pointing the way the group had travelled.