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Gwoya Tjungurrayi (c.
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1895 – 28 March 1965), also spelt Gwoya Jungarai, Gwoya Djungarai and Gwoja Tjungarrayi, was a Walpiri-Anmatyerre man of the Northern Territory of Australia. Also known by his nickname One Pound Jimmy, he became the first Aboriginal person to be featured on an Australian postage stamp.
The Electoral division of Gwoja was named after him.
Early life
Tjungurrayi was born in the Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory, 200 km (120 mi) north-west of Alice Springs, in the region surrounding Coniston Station around 1895.
His first name, Gwoja, is a rendering of the Anmatyerre word Kwaty or Kwatye, meaning "water" or "rain". His last name reflects his skin name Tjungurrayi, also known as Kngwarray in Anmatyerr. As pastoralism expanded in the region during the early 1900s, encroaching further into Tjungurrayi's ancestral country, tensions intensified during the drought of the 1920s, with increasing competition over wa