Mura-mura
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Mura-mura” 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
- 12
- Public sources
- 2
- States / territories
- 0
- Dated span
- 1904–1904
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- Mura-mura in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia#1948rites in connection with the bones of a dead man were carried out. After being shown the ceremonies connected with the totem of the dead man, the Tjulantjuka boy was subincised by a Yakomari man, the details of the cere…
- Mura-mura in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia#1941belief in spirits who take boys away at initiation, Arunta tribe, 492 n. belief in the spirit Tumana, Warra- munga tribe, 499 in spirit Murtu-murtu, Warramunga tribe, 500 belief in spirit Katajalina, Binbinga tribe, 501…
- Mura-mura in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia#1940Alcheringa, 410-41 1 indicating right lubras for men, 416 magic used by, 464 punishing, by magic, 465 obtaining, by magic, 472 head-rings of, used by men for curing headache, 474 belief in spirits who take boys away at…
- Mura-mura in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia#1930mony being closely similar to those of the Binbinga tribe. When all was over the boy was presented with a sacred stick (bull- roarer) called mura-mura and told that it was made, in the first instance, by the whirlwind ;…
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1419A large number of people had assembled at Tuntchara, for the circumcision ceremony, at which there was an old Mura-mura who had provided Palyara for food, and who rejoiced over the sweet smell thereof as it was being co…
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1418The two Mura-muras wandered through all the land, carrying the Tula everywhere for circumcision, and were everywhere honoured as the benefactors of mankind.
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1417people who had collected to circumcise some young men by means of fire. They approached quietly, and then, suddenly springing forward, they circumcised the youths with their Tula before the men knew what was being done.…
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1416They are therefore connected with the Lake Eyre tribes, and I commence my description of the ceremonies of the western type with those of the Dieri tribe. These ceremonies are illustrated by legends, which are repeated…
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1311A large number of people had assembled at Tuntchara, for the circumcision ceremony, at which there was an old Mura-mura who had provided Palyara for food, and who rejoiced over the sweet smell thereof as it was being co…
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1310The two Mura-muras wandered through all the land, carrying the Tula everywhere for circumcision, and were everywhere honoured as the benefactors of mankind.
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1309people who had collected to circumcise some young men by means of fire. They approached quietly, and then, suddenly springing forward, they circumcised the youths with their Tula before the men knew what was being done.…
- Mura-mura in Ceremonies and Beliefs#1308They are therefore connected with the Lake Eyre tribes, and I commence my description of the ceremonies of the western type with those of the Dieri tribe. These ceremonies are illustrated by legends, which are repeated…