Thalanyji

The Thalanyji are an Aboriginal people of the Pilbara coast of Western Australia, their country following the Ashburton River, which they call Minduruu and hold to be the dwelling of the serpent Warnamankura.

Their country extended from the sea inland to Nanutarra and the lower Henry River; local groups such as the Djalendi and Jinigudira were counted among their bands. They spoke a Kanyara language of the Pama–Nyungan family and practised neither circumcision nor subincision.

In July 1618 the Dutch ship Mauritius, with Willem Janszoon aboard, surveyed their river mouth and charted it as Willem's River, among the first west-coast features of Australia to enter European cartography when Hessel Gerritsz printed it in 1627. Their presence farther south at Exmouth Gulf has been read as evidence of a later migration.