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1886
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supernatural in The Australian Race, volume 2

males have their skins ornamented with scars. . When the period of adolescence is past, a front tooth is knocked out of the upper jaw of the males and the lower jaw of the females. Circumcision and other rites of the sort are not practised in this tribe, but on occasions of mourning they cut and ga…

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1,994
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Internet Archive
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Record ID
1994
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Australian Race, volume 2; Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Published
1886
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
supernatural
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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males have their skins ornamented with scars. . When the period of adolescence is past, a front tooth is knocked out of the upper jaw of the males and the lower jaw of the females. Circumcision and other rites of the sort are not practised in this tribe, but on occasions of mourning they cut and gash themselves in various places. They have a great fear of a Supernatural Being, and also of the dead. They make young men on the occasion of their corroborees. Their dead are buried, but not at any great depth, and the friends of the deceased paint portions of their bodies with pipe-clay on such occasions. Disagreements are settled by.

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