Owners / Custodians

Owners ('gidjan') and Custodians ('junggayi')
Each skin group has a primary custodial "looking after" relationship with another skin group in the opposite skin group circle. 'Reciprocal rights and responsibilities relate to land and ceremony and generally Yirritja people will be workers in ceremonies owned by Dhuwa people and vice versa.

In general, a person's first-choice 'junggayi' is the brother or sister of their first-choice wife or husband, while the brother or sister of their second-choice wife or husband is the second-choice 'junggayi' and so on. The arrangement of choosing a 'junggayi' from an opposite moiety but within the same skin group ties families to each other and to ceremony.

First choice junggayi for Ngalkpon people