Author's note: Diwurruwurru is Indigenous language (Yanyuwa/Garrawa) in the Gulf region of northern Australia for ‘message stick’.
Millad is Kriol in the Gulf region of northern Australia for the first person plural pronoun: we, us our.
Ngabaya is Indigenous language (Yanyuwa/Garrawa) in the Gulf region of northern Australia for ‘ghost’ or ‘spirit’; perhaps originally a Yanyuwa word, this term is now used widely by most Indigenous people of the Gulf.