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devil in The Aborigines of New South Wales

YEAR
1892
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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devil in The Aborigines of New South Wales

ng the enemy, begin to hop away, they find a spear or a club every- where near enough to stop their career. ^ / • / • As a rule, the blacks do not care to eat fatty matter ; hence J F^ li^ *^®y reject pork ; they say it is too fat. The flesh of certain ^ ^ ' animals also they reject ; the Tasmanian…

Record ID
1,831
Year
1,892
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1831
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser
Published
1892
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
devil
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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ng the enemy, begin to hop away, they find a spear or a club every- where near enough to stop their career. ^ / • / • As a rule, the blacks do not care to eat fatty matter ; hence J F^ li^ *^®y reject pork ; they say it is too fat. The flesh of certain ^ ^ ' animals also they reject ; the Tasmanians, for instance, would not eat their native tiger and native devil ; and our own blacks do not like the flesh of the native bear because of its gummy taste. But in addition to voluntary abstention from the flesh of * totem' animals, there are restrictions of food which tribal law imposes. To a lad who has not yet passed the Bora, food of.

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