Ramingining is an Aboriginal Australian community of mainly Yolngu people in the Northern Territory, Australia, 560 kilometres (350 mi) east of Darwin.
[3] The village, along with nearby Murwangi (formerly Arafura Station, now part of Ramingining Homelands[4]), was the source for many of the actors in the 2006 film Ten Canoes.
[8] The "SA1" geographical regions defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, including Ramingining and the tiny Wulkabimirri community, recorded a population of 1025.
Kava used to be legally available,[14] but was banned in the entire Northern Territory in August 2007 as a part of the federal government's intervention on Indigenous affairs.
[15] The village has an airstrip (Ramingining Airport) serviced by Fly Tiwi, a general store, a school, a police station, and a health clinic.
[19] Local artists decided on the name, which means "the voice/tongue of Gandayala[20] (also reported as Garrtjambal[19]), or red kangaroo, which is the creation being of Ramingining in The Dreaming mythology.
It is an installation consisting of 200 hollow log coffins (aka burial poles, or dupun), and now on permanent display at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
[23] As of 2023[update] it is owned by its approximately 150 member artists, who live in Ramingining and eleven surrounding outstations of Yatalamarra, Wulkarimirra, Ngangalala, Mulgurram, Garanydjirr, Galadjapin, Gattji, Gelirri, Manbbirri, Bundatharri, and Gurulul.
Women such as Evonne Munuyngu and Mary Dhalapany (twin sister of actor David Gulpilil) are the centre's best-known weavers.
Using machetes to cut down tall spiky pandanus leaves, they strip off the sharp edges to reveal the fibre inside, which they split.