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Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

YEAR
1880
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

ne to a division. For instance, of the last Birraarks one belonged to each of the following places: — Wurnungatti (Kroatun), Bruthen (Brabia), Bunjil Kraura (Braiaka), Bimjil Nellting (Braiaka), Dairgo (Brabra), Delin (Brataua), and Ngarrawut (Tatiing). The stories told of these men all agree in ce…

Record ID
1,604
Year
1,880
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1604
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Kamilaroi and Kurnai; Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt
Published
1880
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
Bunjil
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
New South Wales and Victoria (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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ne to a division. For instance, of the last Birraarks one belonged to each of the following places: — Wurnungatti (Kroatun), Bruthen (Brabia), Bunjil Kraura (Braiaka), Bimjil Nellting (Braiaka), Dairgo (Brabra), Delin (Brataua), and Ngarrawut (Tatiing). The stories told of these men all agree in certain particulars, namely — a professed intercourse with the spirits of the departed Kurnai, and a power to call down these spirits to nocturnal converse with their descendants. The following instance is' highly typical of all the stories respecting them. I give it, as nearly as possible, in my informant's words : — " I was once at.

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