Cammeraygal

Cammeraygal people
aka: Cam-mer-ray-gal, Camerray-ga, Camera-gal, Cammeraa, Cam-meray, Kemmirai-gal, Gamaraigal, Cameragal, Kem:arai, Kemmaraigal and Kameraigal (referring to a group) (AIATSIS), nd (SIL)[1][2]
The traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people were located in the Sydney Basin bioregion
A cave known to shelter Cammeraygal people at Chatswood West
Hierarchy
Language family:Pama–Nyungan
Language branch:Yuin–Kuric
Language group:Yora
Group dialects:Dharug (also called Eora)[2]
Area
Bioregion:Sydney Basin
Location:Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates:33°50′S 151°12′E / 33.833°S 151.200°E / -33.833; 151.200
Urban areas
Notable individuals

The Cammeraygal, variously spelled as Cam-mer-ray-gal, Gamaraigal, Kameraigal, Cameragal and several other variations,[1][2] are one clan of the 29 Darug tribes who are united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans that inhabited the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[3]

Traditional lands and customs

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The traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people are now contained within much of the North Sydney, Willoughby, Mosman, Manly and Warringah local government areas.[4][5][6] The Cammeraygal people lived in the area until the 1820s and are recorded as being in the northern parts of the Sydney region for approximately 5,800 years.[7]

According to early British colonial texts, the Cammeraygal were considered to be the socially dominant clan in the Sydney region. Cammeraygal men conducted the initiation ceremonies over the youths of the neighbouring Gadigal clan which involved the ritual extraction of an upper anterior central incisor tooth.[8]

Legacy

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The suburb of Cammeray and Cammeraygal High School, located in the suburb of Crows Nest, are named after the Cammeraygal people. The name Cammeraygal is ensigned on the North Sydney Council emblem. In 1999, North Sydney Council erected a monument in honour of the Cammeraygal tribe, the traditional owners of the North Sydney area.[9]

Notable Cammeraygal people

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See also

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Notes

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b Dousset 2005.
  2. ^ a b c AIATSIS 2012.
  3. ^ Attenbrow 2010, p. 22.
  4. ^ CMS 2013.
  5. ^ UoS 2014.
  6. ^ Walker 2008.
  7. ^ Hoskins 2019.
  8. ^ Collins, David (1798). An Account of the English Colony of NSW. London: Cadell & Davies.
  9. ^ Monuments Australia 1999.
  10. ^ Collins, sub. V.
  11. ^ BDA 2011, p. 7.

Sources

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