Medicine Man
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Medicine Man” 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
- 119
- Public sources
- 3
- States / territories
- 4
- Dated span
- 1879–1925
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- medicine man in Australian Legends#1919t. At this corroboree the young chief worked himself up into a state of great frenzy and this communicated itself to all those present. He grew passionate with no attempt to check himself. In this way he increased in da…
- medicine man in Australian Legends#1918e of his unusual height. If my conjecture be right, based as it is upon the description brought down by a third generation and the last a white, then this man of unheard-of growth must have been fully eight feet high. H…
- medicine man in Australian Legends#1917erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came out from that glen. it was speckled with glowing fires that flashed and were covered, and flashed and were covered, over and over again. The spirit was light and eth…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#4183nd said to the old man, ameina; ngai wariji? what is it; shall I die? The old man answered, owoi, kutjeri ngeinyimma pari, wariji, yes, by and by you (will be) very ill, (you will) die. Nothing happened for a long time,…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3871alled Mungauilada, only Kakadu men may eat them, no one else may do so under very severe penalties. If anyone should venture to break this rule and to attempt to catch and eat them there, his eyes and ears would swell u…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3870rub. While he is asleep, the friendly Yalmuru, or Iwaiyu, who 3i8 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. has rescued him, tells him that he has been taken away by a Yalmuru who belongs to another country or, as he sa…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3869ey also talk to him. Sometimes a medicine man happens to be close by when he comes back to the Banyan tree after one of his fishing excursions. Bubba Peibi says, Koyada ngainma bo, don't hit me. The medicine man says, K…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3868nd cooks his fish there. Within the tree, also, he has a wife and children. The ordinary black-fellow cannot see him, but the Margi, or medicine men, can, and they also talk to him. Sometimes a medicine man happens to b…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3867, and, when once he has passed, either in or out, it closes up. At the top of the trunk there is a hole through which air comes in. He makes a fire inside the trunk and cooks his fish there. Within the tree, also, he ha…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3866min, handing the snake to Mukurlul, said, kara pierda, hold it hard. Koregora pierda, balera, poro mornda, look hard (or) afterwards your eyes will be bad. Then he put the snake under Mukurlul's arm, saying, the snake i…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3865Mornun, and Gunumaramila, are kumali to a man who is being made into a doctor. They all belong to what are called " hot " yams, which must be specially treated before being eaten, or else they cause much irritation in t…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3864min had a son called Mukurlul. When he grew old he said to the latter, balera ngaiya^ wariji, later on I die ; balera ngeinyimma unkoregora Numereji, later on you look out Numereji, which meant that the son was I The wo…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3863got a new Numereji. In the Kakadu tribe there is a close association between Numereji and the medicine men. They alone are sup- posed not only to be able to see him, but to have eyes that can withstand his glance ; othe…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3862his younger brother. Joemin had a son, called Mukurlul, and Numuraupu had one, called Kardimenjil. Joemin had stolen a small Numereji snake which he cut in two. The front half grew a new short tail, the hinder half died…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3861aper bark and ties it round with string. In his camp, when it is quite dry, he pounds it up until he can roll it into a ball and then, as in the previous case, places it in a hole that he makes in the base of an ant hil…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3860eans of dealing in a very special way with some of his excrement or korno. Because of this, everyone is most careful to cover over and hide from view all excrementa, one result of which is that Kakadu camps are more cle…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3859it is being carried about by a Belier youth, the old men immediately send a message to a medicine man living in a distant part of the country called Bebiba. The medicine man, who is known as Kuldungun, comes at once but…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3858the Bidu-Bidu are broken up and completely destroyed by fire. This is very different indeed from what takes place in the Central tribes, amongst whom the loss or destruction of a Churinga is a very serious matter. If a…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3857ed Spirit at the close of the Korno Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 260 66.— The Old and the Young Numereji Snake. A Bark Drawing. Kakadu Tribe . . . 313 67. — Bubba Peibi from a Drawing on Bark . . . .313 68.— Medicine Man rubb…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3856ribe. ... . . 244 63.— Child's Bones carried about in Dilly Bag by her Mother. Kakadu Tribe. 248 64. — Ceremony of Korno 258 65.— Placing Sticks over the Buried Spirit at the close of the Korno Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 26…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3853of, 24a shown the lurkun or coffin, Mungarai tribe, 252 ; Mara tribe, 255 not allowed near hut of young medicine man, Kakadu tribe, 299 restrictions on eating nuperdaitba, a fish, 319 two Nareuma, tradition of, 322 send…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3852initiation ceremony, 169 totemic system, 208 Numalga or Numalka, 385 Numereji, a snake, traditions con- cerning, 290 and the medicine man, 292, 295 in anthill, 295 men, tradition of two, 299 men changing into snakes, 30…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3851tribe, 315 Marukumana, 93 et seq. Marunga, medicine man, 298 Marungwum, iio, 114 McDougall's bluff, tradition con- cerning, 337 510 INDEX Medicine men and Numereji, 292 securing a Numereji snake, 295, 296 eyes made brig…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3850y a rainbow man, 338 Honey-bags found by two Nu- mereji men, 301 Humour, sense of, amongst aboriginals, 41 Hut, special one, in which initiates are hidden, Melville Island, 104 attack on, 107 special ones used during ce…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3846adu Tribe, spirit of dead person. Melville Island, name of a tribe, brush-tailed wallaby men during the Ober ceremony. Kakadu Tribe. special man during Kakadu Tribe, special man during Kakadu Tribe. Kakadu Tribe, the ne…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3845be heard singing out, yirkudda, quick, Koafungi, daylight, nungoitji, cold. They can be seen by the margi, or medicine man, wandering about in the bush, the man carrying a basket (drawn hanging from his left shoulder) i…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3839ng men and, if he finds one alone in the bush, tries to lure him away and take his Iwaiyu, or spirit part, from him. The only way in which the Iwaiyu can be recovered is by the aid of a medicine man, who, earring a Nume…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3838t hand is called Nangintain, and is a spirit associated especially with the Geimbio tribe. This is one of those mischievous individuals who, every now and then, leaves his own country and visits the Kakadu and other nei…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3835den snatch at it and caught its head. No one but himself and Mukalakki could see it. He held it very firmly and carefully unwound it from Mukalakki's body. When he had done this successfully, he rolled the snake up in h…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3834ma kutjeri, what have you eaten (to make) you ill ? Mukalakki remembered what the old man had told him long ago and he answered, Kuljoanjo. Then the old doctor said, umhordera wariji — to-day you die. He was very ill th…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3833He immediately places it in the mother's head, from which it passes down into her breast and the child, who is at once put to the breast, drinks it in with its mother's milk, or Kumilungornu. If the father finds out, wh…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3832rit would immediately leave its body, run to the water hole, and be drawn under and swallowed up by a Numereji snake. If, 346 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. by any chance, the mother breaks the rule, the fath…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3831ld is born, and while it is young, the woman must not drink out of a deep water hole, the water must not reach above her knees ; the husband tells the woman that she must not break this rule or the child will die. Also,…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3828s. In the early days Joemin was the first medicine man, and he made others, and showed them what had to be done. At first Joemin's eyes were like those of other men, and he could not see Numereji. One day he went to a w…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1327ild is born, and while it is young, the woman must not drink out of a deep water hole, the water must not reach above her knees; the husband tells the woman that she must not break this rule or the child will die. Also,…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1273At length Morpun, the great medicine man, arrived. For a while he stood silently, some distance off, watching Mukalakki. First he ordered the women to go away, along way off. Mukalakki sat up. Once more the snake came o…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1272The natives, realising the gravity of the case, had sent away to a place, called Oenpelli, fourteen miles away, for a special, celebrated medicine man, named Morpun, who fortunately happened to be reincarnated at that t…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1270He was feeling very bad indeed and an old medicine man said to him ameina jau, ngeinyimma kutjeri, what have you eaten (to make) you ill?
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3174doubt among the onlookers as to his having really done this. Then once more the projecting of the Atnongara stones is repeated, and after this, crouching down over the sick man, he places his mouth upon the affected par…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3173ll, the verdict is that one of the Iruntarinia has placed in his body an Ullinka, or short barbed stick attached to an invisible string, the pulling of which by the malicious spirit causes great pain. If such be the cas…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3172have come a long distance, gravely examines him and consults with any local practitioners who may be present, and with the more immediate relatives of the patient, as to the nature of the illness. The diagnosis always o…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3171rticular kind of lizard distributed through his body which endows him with great suctorial powers, such as the natives attribute to the lizard itself. In serious cases the action is often very dramatic, and the medicine…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3170ved. Among the western Arunta, especially, the medicine man, in addition to the 34Q ACROSS AUSTRALIA chap. Atnongara stones, is supposed to have a particular kind of lizard distributed through his body which endows him…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3169t every now and then pieces of wood, bone or stone, the presence of which is believed to be causing the injury and pain. This suction is one of the most characteristic features of native medical treatment, as pain in an…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3168r individual, though it is sometimes said, as we have heard on different occasions, that if a particular medicine man had been present he would have been able to counteract the influence of the enemy. Just as amongst ou…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3167state, but, when he had recovered, the medicine men told him that he might go back to his own camp. In case of sickness the natives have implicit trust in the medicine man, and in serious cases two or three, if they are…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3166as supplied with food by women who stood to him in the tribal relationship of mother, wife and elder but not younger sister. The treatment to which he had been subjected left him really in a very weak state, but, when h…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3165e Oruncha being the evil or at least the mischievous spirit of the Arunta. A long black line, down the centre of the drawing, on the body, represents the Oruncha himself, and the marks round it are supposed to be the ma…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3164ds behind his head and to put his tongue out. As he did this, one of the medicine men withdrew from his skull, just behind his ear, a thin sharp stone — one of the Atnongara — and, taking some dust from the ground, drie…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3163because if he were bitten by one of these, his medical powers would depart from him for xiii KAITISH AND UNMATJERA TRIBES 337 ever. At Barrow Creek there was an erstwhile medicine man who had become disqualified as a pr…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3162e man must abstain from. He may not eat fat or warm meat, neither must he inhale the smoke from burning bones nor go near to the nest of the large " bull-dog " ant (a species of Myrmecia), because if he were bitten by o…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3161these stones remain in his body he is capable of performing the work of a medicine man, but sometimes they are withdrawn, in which case they are supposed to return to the Iruntarinia from whom they originally came. With…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3160new insides, but they implant in his body a supply of small magic stones, called Atnongara, which he can project into the body of a patient, in whom they combat the evil influences at work within him. In modern language…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3159ternaturally solemn, as if he were the possessor of knowledge quite hidden from ordinary men. The Iruntarinia not only provide him with new insides, but they implant in his body a supply of small magic stones, called At…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3158and of powdered charcoal and fat across the bridge of his nose, and it is at once recognised that a new medicine man has graduated. He must not, however, according to the strict etiquette of his profession, engage in pr…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3157certain highly gifted medicine men and to the camp dogs, leads him back to his people. For several days the man remains more or less strange in his appearance and VOL. II G 336 ACROSS AUSTRALIA chap. behaviour, until, o…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3156must not go inside; if he did he would anger the Iruntarinia and be spirited away for ever. At break of day one of the Iruntarinia comes to the mouth of the cave and throws an invisible lance at the man which pierces hi…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3155hose who only hold a licentiate. The method of graduation, as conducted by the Iruntarinia, is as follows. About fourteen miles to the south of the Alice Springs station there is a shallow cave, called Okalpara, in a ra…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3154wo Orunchas were brothers. One day the elder started off after an old kangaroo, but, as he chased it, the rain came down in torrents and both of them got bogged in soft ground. As soon as ever the Oruncha lifted one leg…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3153irit. There is how- ever a better chance of recovery if the cause of illness be a poison bone or stick implanted in the body by a human being. If the medicine man be successful, the recovered patient ascertains who it w…
This collection contains 119 search-ready records. The complete record set remains discoverable through the paginated public record index.