Antakirinja people

The Antakirinja, otherwise spelt Antakarinya, and alternatively spoken of as the Ngonde,^[a] are an indigenous Australian people of South Australia.

Name

Their tribal ethnonym generally signifies "westerners", from andakara / antakiri, apparently meaning 'west,' with the suffix -nja denoting 'name'.^[2]

Language

Antakirinya is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated the total range of lands to extend over roughly 24,500 square miles (63,000 km²). They lived around the headwaters of four rivers, the Hamilton, Alberga, Wintinna, and Lora, and northwards over the modern border as far as Kulgera in the Northern Territory. Their southern frontiers, just before the start of the gibber desert terrain, ran down to Mount Willoughby, Arckaringa, and the Stuart Range, close to the Kokata territory at Coober Pedy. The line separating them from the Matuntara tribe roughly coincides with the northern reaches of the bluebush plains.^[1]

Social organization

The Antakarinya were composed of several hordes.

• Walarangunja (eastern Everard Ranges)
• Kadjilaranda (clan north of the eastern Everard Ranges)^[1]

According to Christopher Giles, a Telegrapoh Stationmaster as Charlotte Waters, writing in 1875, they had four class names:

• Parroola
• Panungka
• Booltara
• Koomurra^[3]

The marriage relations of the four were tabulated in the following manner:^[4][5]

Male	Marries	Children are
Parroola	Panungka	Koomurra
Panungka	Parroola	Booltara
Booltara	Koomurra	Poonungka (sic)
Koomurra	Booltara	Parroola

Alternative names

• Antakarinja, Antakerinya, Antakerrinya,^[3] Andagirinja, Andagarinja, Andekerinja (Arrernte pronunciation), Andekarinja, Antekarinja, Andigarinya.
• Andigirinji, Antingari, Andigari, Andgari
• Andegilliga, Andigarina, Antigari, Andigiri, Anjirigna
• Anterrikanya, Antegarinya, Antigerinya,^[6] Andjirigna
• Untergerrie
• Aldolinga
• Ngonde
• Tangara
• Yandairunga
• Njuntundjara. (Yankuntjatjarra exonym).
• Walarangunja
• Walarenunga
• Kadjilaranda
• Aluna. (language name for southern bands).^[1]

Notes

1. "An alternative that may be more valid is Ngonde, but this term has been said by some aborigines to embrace also the Jangkundjara, being applied to two hordes in the Everard Range area."^[1]

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 210.
2. Tindale 1974, pp. 136, 210.
3. Giles & Taplin 1879, p. 89.
4. Giles & Taplin 1879, p. 90.
5. Giles, Fison & Howitt 1880, p. 65.
6. Elkin 1931, p. 63.

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