Mura-mura in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia
rites in connection with the bones of a dead man were carried out. After being shown the ceremonies connected with the totem of the dead man, the Tjulantjuka boy was subincised by a Yakomari man, the details of the ceremony being closely similar to those of the Binbinga tribe. When all was over the…
- Record ID
- 1,948
- Year
- 1,904
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1948
- 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
- Mura-mura
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Central Australia, NT/SA: B
- Source voice
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- Publicness
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rites in connection with the bones of a dead man were carried out. After being shown the ceremonies connected with the totem of the dead man, the Tjulantjuka boy was subincised by a Yakomari man, the details of the ceremony being closely similar to those of the Binbinga tribe. When all was over the boy was presented with a sacred stick (bull- roarer) called mura-mura and told that it was made, in the first instance, by the whirlwind ; that it was kurta-kurta (tabooed), and must on no account be shown to women or children, who think that its roaring is the voice of a great spirit called Gnabaia, who has come to swallow up the boy..
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