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spirit in The Australian Race, volume 1

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1886
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South Australia
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Internet Archive
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spirit in The Australian Race, volume 1

to the execution of works of art. It was discovered in 1882, or thereabouts, that the Blacks to the westward of Lake Eyre, on the Musgrave Ranges, and, it is believed, in some other portions of Central Australia, wear a sort of shoe when they attack their enemies by stealth at night. Some of the tr…

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1,893
Year
1,886
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1893
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Published
1886
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Eastern Australia: B; Lake Eyre, SA (SA): high
State or territory
SA
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to the execution of works of art. It was discovered in 1882, or thereabouts, that the Blacks to the westward of Lake Eyre, on the Musgrave Ranges, and, it is believed, in some other portions of Central Australia, wear a sort of shoe when they attack their enemies by stealth at night. Some of the tribes call these shoes Kooditcha, their name for an invisible spirit. I have seen a pair of them. The soles were made of the feathers of the emu, stuck together with a little human blood, which the maker is said to take from his arm. They were about an inch and a half thick, soft, and of even breadth. The uppers were nets made of human.

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