Kurnai
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Kurnai” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 5
- Public sources
- 1
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1880–1899
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- Kurnai in Eaglehawk and Crow#1586appropriate, the former doubtful. An argument in favour of group-marriage based upon the application of terms designating real relationship to all the members of a group where there are four or more groups is met by the…
- Kurnai in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1601ieve him ahlo to communicate with rfhosts, when we recall that he believes his own ancestral ffhosts visit himself in dreams. We should be loth to- o reproach him with superstition when we reflect upon the extraordinary…
- Kurnai in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1600learned. I can only say that their qualities, so far as I can ascertain, are negative. They are not so bad as Brewin. They are not very powerful, and arc, consequently, not much feared. The teachings of the missionaries…
- Kurnai in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1599most inaccessible tree, apparently asleep. It was alleged that the ghosts had transported him there at their departure. At this seance the questions put related to individuals of the group who were absent, and to the su…
- Kurnai in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1596ajerak, but I do not rely upon the evidence, as he might have unconsciously- been influenced by ideas imbibed from Christian teaching. Such being the belief held by the Kurnai as to the * Tundting, supposed to be a subs…