Spirit Individual
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Spirit Individual” 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
- 1899–1899
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- spirit individual in Sacred Objects and Ceremonies#1347totems. The exact significance of this can only be a matter of conjecture, p. 630 for the natives have not, so far as we can find out, any idea with regard to its origin or meaning. The decoration evidently points to th…
- spirit individual in Sacred Objects and Ceremonies#1344The exact significance of this can only be a matter of conjecture, p. 630 for the natives have not, so far as we can find out, any idea with regard to its origin or meaning. The decoration evidently points to the fact t…
- spirit individual in Totemic Ceremonies#1331he ceremony as performed in the different tribes. p. 459 CEREMONY OF NOSE BORING In the Arunta and Ilpirra tribes when a boy's nose has been bored, that is as soon as the operation has been completed, he strips a piece…
- spirit individual in Sacred Objects and Ceremonies#1290The exact significance of this can only be a matter of conjecture, p. 630 for the natives have not, so far as we can find out, any idea with regard to its origin or meaning. The decoration evidently points to the fact t…
- spirit individual in Totemic Ceremonies#1274In the Arunta and Ilpirra tribes when a boy's nose has been bored, that is as soon as the operation has been completed, he strips a piece of bark off a gum tree, if possible, and throws it as far as he can in the direct…