Karenggapa (NSW)

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Location: Mount Bygrave and Woodbum Lake, Qld.; Tibooburra, N.S.W.; at Yalpunga and Connulpie Downs; on the Bulloo River about Bulloo Lakes; southwest to near Milparinka; east to Therloo Downs. They practiced only circumcision as an initiation rite.

Co-ordinates: 142°45'E x 29°15'S

Area: 5,500 sq. m. (14,300 sq. km.)

References: Curr, 1886; Reid in Curr, 1886; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6464); Tindale, 1940.

Alternative Names: Karengappa, Karrengappa, Kurengappa.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/18/36 - Broken Hill (3355)