Nipper Kabirriki

Nipper Kabirriki, also recorded as Nippa Kapirigi (c. 1910 – 24 April 1987) was a Kundjeyhmi man, stockman and research collaborator from the Northern Territory of Australia.

His work was instrumental to the establishment of Kakadu National Park. He spent much of his early life travelling around the Alligator Rivers region and Kabirriki remembers understanding that he had "to go around, every place" based on the season. One of his earliest memories was seeing the first feral water buffalo entering the region and spearing in, alongside his brother George Mingum, and eating the meat. this publication referred to him as Koperaki and detailed their first meeting, his significance within the community and many of the interactions that they had. Warburton described him "as a fine type of man, black or white, that I ever wish to meet". Kabirriki offered insight into their cultural significance and, together, they were able to create a sequence to many of the paintings and the way they documented ecological changes that were happening. The relationship between the two men has been called “the most important single conduit for lodging the cultural significance of the Kakadu landscape in the archive and representing it in the public domain”. In 1981 he also assisted Rhys Jones's archaeological team.

Working as a research collaborator Kabirriki was generous with his knowledge and said of this: