Barindji

[1] Parrintyi, according to one theory, meant forest dwellers[2] in the local languages,[1] but another view suggests it may have originated from the toponym for a creek known as the Paroo, reflecting prior tribal links.

Tindale glosses this attribution by suggesting that the term may derive from a creek name, called the Paroo, reflecting prior tribal links.

Tindale set their southern boundaries from Moira to within 30 miles (48 km) of Euston, and their eastern extension in the vicinity of Ivanhoe.

[1] Running clockwise from the north, their neighbours were the Naualko, followed by the Ngiyambaa to their east, the Yitayita on their southeastern flank, while the southern Paakantyi inhabited the land to their west.

The Parrintyi were described by Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt on their respective explorations of the area and described in colonial times by local landowners A.L.P.