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Ulthana in Totemic Ceremonies

YEAR
1899
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Northern Territory
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Internet Sacred Text Archive
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Ulthana in Totemic Ceremonies

t 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 decorated with circles of white down which were supposed to represent the skulls of sl…

Record ID
1,329
Year
1,899
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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Record ID
1329
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Publication
Native Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1899
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
Ulthana
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Central Australia, NT (NT): B
State or territory
NT
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t 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 decorated with circles of white down which were supposed to represent the skulls of slain and eaten men. The performers themselves represented the Ulthana or spirits of the dead men wandering about in search of those who had killed and eaten them. In another ceremony two Achilpa men were engaged in cooking the body of a third; in another, p. 474 p. 475 concerned with the white bat totem, one of the performers carried on.

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