Mungan-ngaua in Initiation Ceremonies
en for these words. I was told in reference to them, "Our fathers always said and did thus to make the boys into men." ↑ I was much struck by the similarity of this raising the hands towards the sky, to the pointing upwards of the Murring at their Kuringal; but I could not learn that it had any ref…
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- 1,904
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- Record ID
- 1317
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- Publication
- Native Tribes of South-East Australia; A. W. Howitt
- Published
- 1904
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Mungan-ngaua
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- South-Eastern Australia: B
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en for these words. I was told in reference to them, "Our fathers always said and did thus to make the boys into men." ↑ I was much struck by the similarity of this raising the hands towards the sky, to the pointing upwards of the Murring at their Kuringal; but I could not learn that it had any reference to Mungan-ngaua, who is the equivalent of the Murring Daramulun. ↑ "He!" may be translated here "Well," or "Good." The aspirate has a nasal sound which cannot be represented in writing. "He!" is also used affirmatively as we use the sound "Hm!" Nga = yes. ↑ Yiirung, the totem of the Kurnai males, as Djiitgun is that of the.
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