The Ngaatjatjarra (otherwise spelt Ngadadjara) are an Indigenous Australian people of Western Australia, with communities located in the north eastern part of the Goldfields-Esperance region.
[4] Tindale's map places the neighbouring tribes of the Ngaatjatjarra as, running clockwise, the Keiadjara and the Wenamba to their north, the Pitjantjatjara on their eastern frontier, the Nakako and Mandjindja to their south and the Ngaanyatjarra on their western borders.
[7] The "Ngaanyatjara lands" are those administered by the Ngaanyatjarra Council (Aboriginal Corporation), which includes the communities of[8] Irrunytju (Wingelinna),[9] Kiwirrkurra,[10] Mantamaru (Jameson),[11] Papulankutja (Blackstone),[12] Patjarr (Karilywara),[13] Kanpa (Pira Kata),[14] Tjirrkarli,[15] Tjukurla,[16][17] Warakurna,[18] Wanarn,[19] Warburton (Mirlirrtjarra).
[20] They practised both circumcision and subincision, in two distinct phrases, on youths undergoing initiation into full manhood, employing biface pressure-flaked stone knives ('tjimbila), which they obtained through trade with neighbouring tribes to their north, who in turn ultimately received them from their production centre in northwestern Australia.
Tindale describes in detail one nuclear family of the tribe encountered in August 1935 during the Expedition of the Board for Anthropological Research of the University of Adelaide.