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medicine man in Australian Legends

YEAR
1925
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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medicine man in Australian Legends

e of his unusual height. If my conjecture be right, based as it is upon the description brought down by a third generation and the last a white, then this man of unheard-of growth must have been fully eight feet high. His father, said to have been thirteen stone weight, reached but to his waist. He…

Record ID
1,918
Year
1,925
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
1918
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Australian Legends; C. W. Peck
Published
1925
Narrative type
Descriptive Belief Records
Public-text label
medicine man
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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e of his unusual height. If my conjecture be right, based as it is upon the description brought down by a third generation and the last a white, then this man of unheard-of growth must have been fully eight feet high. His father, said to have been thirteen stone weight, reached but to his waist. He wielded more power than the chief, and quite as much as the medicine man. He was a "boner." There had been several mysterious deaths, and a polished bone was one of the secret possessions of the tall man. Several men had seen it. He took a violent dislike to the chief because he had been instructed to prepare himself for participation.

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