Kurnai in Eaglehawk and Crow
appropriate, the former doubtful. An argument in favour of group-marriage based upon the application of terms designating real relationship to all the members of a group where there are four or more groups is met by the objection that in Australia the manifold groups have been derived from an origi…
- Record ID
- 1,586
- Year
- 1,899
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1586
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Eaglehawk and Crow; John Mathew
- Published
- 1899
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Kurnai
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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appropriate, the former doubtful. An argument in favour of group-marriage based upon the application of terms designating real relationship to all the members of a group where there are four or more groups is met by the objection that in Australia the manifold groups have been derived from an original pair. The Rev. Dr. L. Fison, in the work " Kamilroi and Kurnai," emphasises and corroborates Mr. Morgan's view. Dr. Fison, in dealing with the rise of the Australian exogamous classes, lays stress upon the Murdoo legend, an aboriginal tradition, the substance of which is that the classes restricting matrimony were constituted to.
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