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Medicine man in Magic

YEAR
1899
PLACE
Northern Territory
SOURCE
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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Medicine man in Magic

Each Kurdaitcha man when going on his errand is accompanied by a medicine man and the two men are rubbed over with charcoal—black being in the Arunta tribe the colour associated with magic—and decorated with bands of white down. The hair of both men is tied up behind and a small conical helmet of t…

Record ID
1,280
Year
1,899
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Index status
Archive detail (not indexed)

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Record context

Record ID
1280
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Publication
Native Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1899
Narrative type
Descriptive Belief Records
Public-text label
Medicine man
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Central Australia, NT (NT): B
State or territory
NT
Source voice
Source Grounded Section Record
Publicness
Public Domain Public Web

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Each Kurdaitcha man when going on his errand is accompanied by a medicine man and the two men are rubbed over with charcoal—black being in the Arunta tribe the colour associated with magic—and decorated with bands of white down. The hair of both men is tied up behind and a small conical helmet of twigs is fastened on with hair string. The Kurdaitcha himself has lines of down passing across the front of the helmet, down the side of the face and front of the body and legs as far as the knees. The medicine man has a median line running from the top of the helmet to the tip of his nose; another curved line meeting this at both ends.

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