Warramirri

Born in 1964

Homeland: Dholtji

The Warramirri clan is mainly based West of the Miwatj and particularly at Elcho Island as they are the landowners of the Wessel Islands and are a seafaring clan. In the 1970s the Warramirri Clan collaborated with John Cawte to record cultural knowledge in a book called ‘The Universe of the Warramirri’. It is suggested that the suppression and cessation of Macassan visitation caused economic collapse in the Wessel Islands and hurt the Warramirri particularly heavy.