Bunjil in Initiation Ceremonies
I have spoken before of the sequence of the groups of tribes along the course of the Murray River from Wentworth upwards. I need not again enumerate them, but merely point out that the Ta-tathi are situated farthest down-stream, being on their western boundary in touch with the tribes of the River…
- Record ID
- 1,303
- Year
- 1,904
- Source
- Wikisource
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1303
- Source
- Wikisource
- Publication
- Native Tribes of South-East Australia; A. W. Howitt
- Published
- 1904
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Bunjil
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- South-Eastern Australia: B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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I have spoken before of the sequence of the groups of tribes along the course of the Murray River from Wentworth upwards. I need not again enumerate them, but merely point out that the Ta-tathi are situated farthest down-stream, being on their western boundary in touch with the tribes of the River Darling, of which the Wiimbaio are my example. The Baraba-baraba are the farthest up-stream, with the Bureppa-bureppa akin to them, as speaking a dialect of the same language, on the Lower Loddon River in Victoria. On the Victorian side of the Murray the sequence of tribes, having the two-class system with the names Mukwara and Kilpara,.
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