Karenggapa

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

Karrenggapa traditional lands

Country

Norman Tindale estimated the extent of their tribal lands at 14,000 square kilometres (5,500 sq mi), 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.^[1]

Social organisation and rites

The Karenggapa did not practice subincision, their initiation rites involving only circumcision.^[1]

Language

They may have spoken a Yarli dialect.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2]

Alternative names

• Karengappa
• Karrengappa
• Kurengappa

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 195