"Sally Gabori is a senior woman of the Kaiadilt tribe from the South Wellesley Islands, in the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. She speaks the Kayardild language. Her tribal name is Mirdidingkingathi juwarnda. Juwarnda means `dolphin', which is her totemic sign, and Mirdidingkingathi means `born at Mirdidingki', in her country on the south side of Bentinck Island. She was born around 1924 and lived a completely traditional life, with practically no contact with non-Kaiadilt people, fishing and gathering shellfish and vegetable foods, and maintaining the stonefish walls around the shores of Bentinck Island.

This changed in the early 1940s, when missionaries transported the entire Kaiadilt population from their tribal lands to the mission on Mornington Island. She then lived on Mornington until the late 1980s, when the Kaiadilt began to re-establish themselves on their ancestral lands, building a number of outstations on Bentinck Island. Mother and grandmother to a large family, and the living repository of a wealth of tribal lore, she now lives on Mornington Island. Throughout her life she has been an accomplished producer of traditional handicrafts made from bush products such as pandanus fibres and hibiscus bark woven into string."

Nicholas Rollo David Evans, for Sally Gabori