spirit individual in Sacred Objects and Ceremonies
totems. The exact significance of this can only be a matter of conjecture, p. 630 for the natives have not, so far as we can find out, any idea with regard to its origin or meaning. The decoration evidently points to the fact that it has some relation to a human being, and possibly we may have in t…
- Record ID
- 1,347
- Year
- 1,899
- Source
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1347
- 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
- spirit individual
- 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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totems. The exact significance of this can only be a matter of conjecture, p. 630 for the natives have not, so far as we can find out, any idea with regard to its origin or meaning. The decoration evidently points to the fact that it has some relation to a human being, and possibly we may have in the Kauaua the expression of the idea of the association of a spirit individual with a tree. We find, it must be remembered, amongst the Arunta tribe that trees are intimately associated with particular celebrated individuals of the Alcheringa whose spirits especially frequent those which are their Nanja trees, and, whilst there is no.
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