Karenggapa Explained

The Karenggapa are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated the extent of their tribal lands at 5500mi2, reaching from Mount Bygrave in northwestern New South Wales to Woodbum Lake in Queensland. They took in Tibooburra, at Yalpunga and Connulpie Downs, and included the Bulloo Lakes area. Their southwestern boundaries lay in the vicinity of Milparinka, while their eastern frontier ran along Therloo Downs.

Social organisation and rites

The Karenggapa did not practice subincision, their initiation rites involving only circumcision.

Language

They may have spoken a Yarli dialect. AUSTLANG has not given a confirmed status to a language of this name, saying that its identity is unclear; it may be either an alternative name or dialect of the Wangkumara language.

Alternative names

• Karengappa
• Karrengappa
• Kurengappa

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Citations

Sources

• Group divisions and initiation ceremonies of the Barkungee tribes . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . 1898 . 32 . 241–255 .
• Book: Reid, James A. . Torrowotto . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 2 . 178–181 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf . PDF.
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Karenggapa (NSW) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/karenggapa.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6.