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Bunjil in Initiation Ceremonies

YEAR
1904
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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
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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
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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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