 In Norman Tindale's estimation the total land range encompassed something like .The area is now known as the "Kutjungka Region".The Djaru, like the Gija, much admired the composite spears, fitted with barbed pegs, of their southern neighbours, fashioned from mulga hardwood and "witjuti" bush shrubs and to obtain them would exchange them for stone knives and pressure-flaked spear blades ("tjimbala"), and pearl shells which filtered down from the coast where they had been collected by the distant Jawi.