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spirit in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

anisation and customs all our knowledge of Australian tribes was previously based. That ceremonies and beliefs, possibly in details different from, but probably in essential features akin to, those of the central tribes have not been described is no proof at all that they did not exist. It can scar…

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1,925
Year
1,904
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1925
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1904
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Central Australia, NT/SA: B
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anisation and customs all our knowledge of Australian tribes was previously based. That ceremonies and beliefs, possibly in details different from, but probably in essential features akin to, those of the central tribes have not been described is no proof at all that they did not exist. It can scarcely be imagined that the idea of reincarnation of ancestral spirit individuals, and customs such as Intichiuma, should be confined even to the very wide area over which our investigations have been spread. Indeed Mr. Roth’s latest work in Queensland shows clearly that the idea of spirit children entering women, and that sexual.

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