Nganalgindja was a Kunwinjku woman from Arnhem Land. Catherine Berndt, who with her husband Ronald Berndt, recorded oral histories and stories of the Indigenous people among whom they worked, recorded her traditional story in writing and published it in English in an award-winning book for children.
In Land of the Rainbow Snake (1979), where the story was first published, Berndt wrote: 'Nganalgindja told the story. She was a young girl when she first heard it from her mother and from her "auntie" who was one of the owners of the country where it happened' (p. 28).