Karingbal (QLD)

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Location: Headwaters of Comet River (upper Mackenzie) from below Rolleston south to the Carnarvon Range; west to Consuelo Peak; on the Brown River; east to Expedition Range and Bedourie. It is a tribe quite separate from the Kanolu and Kangulu. Davidson's placings of this and neighboring tribes are based on Kelly's incorrect sketch map that shows Emerald 50 miles out of position with respect to Springsure.

Co-ordinates: 148°35'E x 24°55'S

Area: 2,800 sq. m. (7,300 sq. km.)

References: McIntosh in Curr, 1887; Murray in Curr, 1887; Birt in Cameron, 1904; Kelly, 1935; Tindale, 1940.

Alternative Names: Karingbool, Kaingbul, Karranbal; man = ['gulbura], no = ['kangu].

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

Item AA 338/7/2/33 - Queensland Tribes A-Kon, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/34 - Queensland Tribes Kon-Tal, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/35 - Queensland Tribes Native, Tam-W

Item AA 338/7/2/36 - Queensland Tribes A-R, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/37 - Queensland Tribes T-Z, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/58 - Parallel Vocabulary 1, Harvard Expedition, A-K

Item AA 338/7/2/59 - Parallel Vocabulary 2, Harvard Expedition, L-S

Item AA 338/7/2/60 - Parallel Vocabulary 3, Harvard Expedition, T-Z

Item AA 338/8/20 - Parallel Vocabularies

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/18/25 - Charleville (3341)

Item AA 346/4/20 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition sociological, anthropological and ACER data cards

Item AA 689/9/16 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Expedition, Anthropological Data Cards, with Sociological Photographs attached. 1938-39.