Wargamaygani

The Wargamaygani, or Warrgamay, were the Aboriginal people of Halifax Bay in northern Queensland, holding about fifty miles of coastline and, by one estimate, six hundred square miles of country. Their language, Warrgamay, was a Dyirbalic Pama-Nyungan tongue with three dialects: Wargamaygan on the lower Herbert River, Biyay at the river mouth, and Hinchinbrook Biyay along the coast and on Hinchinbrook Island.

Clans such as the Ikelbara, Mungulbara and Karabara made up the people. Initiation used tooth avulsion, scarification and nose-bone piercing rather than circumcision, polygamy was common, and a widow was married to her dead husband's brother.