The Wenamba are an Aboriginal Australian people of the central eastern edge of Western Australia in the Goldfields Region[clarify].
The Wenamba were one of several desert tribes known generically as Kalgonei/Kalgoneidjara, One telling term used of them, Mangawara, meant 'chignon bearers' referring to their dressing their hair in buns, which in turn served to hold some of their possessions.
While camping one night near the Rawlinson Ranges, his attention was drawn to a shuffling noise, and he looked up and noticed a little native girl quietly walking towards the campfire.
He broke the tension by remarking in Pitjantjatjara on the tjilka (prickly) bush tomato seeds strewn over the ground made walking barefoot difficult.
With an amicable rapport established, the father then fetched his three-barbed spear, unlike the single barb deployed by the other two tribes.