Ulthana
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Ulthana” 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
- 6
- 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Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.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
- Ulthana in Magic#1337It is supposed to be very effective as a means of frightening the Ulthana, that is the spirit of the dead man.
- Ulthana in Totemic Ceremonies#1329t the Engwura which can only be regarded as pointing back to the existence of a different state of affairs from that which now obtains. For example, in the Quabarra Ingwurninga inkinja, 1 two men had their bodies decora…
- Ulthana in Magic#1287The Ulthana or spirit of the dead man is supposed to follow the party in the form of a little bird called Chichurkna and is constantly on the look-out to injure the Immirinja.
- Ulthana in Magic#1286It is supposed to be very effective as a means of frightening the Ulthana, that is the spirit of the dead man.
- Ulthana in Magic#1285Travelling back to the Arunta country, the Atninga party separated into various contingents, each of which went to its own locality, upon arrival at which certain ceremonies had to be observed. The Alice Springs conting…
- Ulthana in Totemic Ceremonies#1275There is very clear evidence that during a former stage cannibalism was a well-recognised custom. We have already described certain ceremonies performed at the Engwura which can only be regarded as pointing back to the…