RECORD ID

1923

FIGURE

Spirit Ancestor

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit ancestor

PUBLICATION

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

, and no woman will strike one of them with a hatchet for fear lest the blow should disturb one of the spirits, and it should immediately come out and enter her body. On the other hand we do, now and again, though only rarely, meet with beliefs similar to those of the Arunta — as, for example, in the case of the present headman of the Wollunqua totem, whose spirit ancestor inhabited a special water-hole close by the side of Thapauerlu, where the Wollunqua itself lives. In the Arunta tribe the spirit individual is spoken of as an iruntaHnia^ and in addition to the latter a second spirit issues from the Nanja, whom the natives call.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

1. 01spirit ancestor in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia1904 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit ancestor in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia1904 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit ancestor in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia1904 · Internet Archive
4. 04Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive