An Australian First Nations people of Northern Victoria and southern New South Wales
Traditional lands of the Barababaraba
The Barababaraba people (also spelt Barapabarapa) are an indigenous Australian people whose territory covered parts of southern New South Wales and northern Victoria. They had close connections with the Wemba Wemba.
Barababaraba have extensive shared country with their traditional neighbours, the Wemba Wemba and Yorta Yorta, covering what is now Deniliquin, the Kow Swamp and Perrricoota/Koondrook. The Barababaraba form part of the North-West Nations Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Group, and undertake significant cultural heritage and Natural Resource Management work in the area.
Barababaraba territory which covered areas in what are now the states of New South Wales and Victoria, is estimated to have taken in some 9,300 square kilometres (3,600sqmi) of land, southern tributaries of the Murrumbidgee River from above Hay down to Kerang. One early source also has them, perhaps a distinct horde, present in Moulamein[lower-alpha 1] It included Cohuna, Gunbower, Brassi, Conargo, and the land south of Carrathool.[2]Deniliquin Their neighbours to the north west were the Wemba Wemba, the Wergaia frontier was directly to the west, the Yorta Yorta boundaries ran north and south to their east. The Dja Dja Wurrung lay to the south.
Social organization
The Barababaraba hordes had a moiety (kin ship) society divided into two phratries, each comprising two sections. The rules of marriage and affiliation are as follows.[lower-alpha 2]
Phratry A:
(a) a Murri man marries an Ippatha woman. Their sons are Umbi, daughters Butha.
(b) a Kubbi man marries a Butha woman. Their sons are Ippai, daughters Ippatha.
Phratry B
(a) An Ippai man marries a Matha woman. Their sons are Kubbi, daughters Kubbitha.
(b) An Umbi man marries a Kubbitha woman. Their sons are Murri, daughters Matha.[lower-alpha 3]
In terms of initiation ceremonies, the Barababaraba rites were essentially the same as those prevailing among the Wiradjuri.[3]
Lifestyle
The Barababaraba were one of the Murray River Wongal-chewing groups:[4]wangulbulrushes were chewed both for the tuberous pith and for the fibrous cortex which was torn away to obtain the latter. The fibre was conserved to make strings for fashioning nets and bags.[4][5]
History
A mortar in Barababaraba territory, at Koondrook Perricoota Forest near Barbers Creek, was recovered in 2012 and an analysis led to the suggestion that it might have been employed to grind gypsum, used by more northerly tribes in funerals, but here perhaps for obtaining a corroboree body paint.[6]
↑ Exceptions exist, with a Murri marrying a Butha, or Kubbi an Ippatha. Strictly speaking, this diagram would imply a brother's child can marry his sister's child, but this is rigorously forbidden. A brother's child's offspring may marry a sister's child's offspring (Mathews 1904, p.294).
Barwick, Diane E. (1984). McBryde, Isabel (ed.). "Mapping the past: an atlas of Victorian clans 1835-1904". Aboriginal History. 8 (2): 100–131. JSTOR24045800.
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