RECORD ID

2058

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Notes on the Aborigines of Western Australia; C. G. Nicolay

AUTHOR

Not specified

irst stranger he meets with. The fire is kept burning at the grave until this has been done. The men of the tribe put powdered charcoal on their foreheads, by way of mourning ; the women cover their heads and breasts with white pipe-clay. The hut that is built over the grave always faces the rising sun. The name of the dead person is never mentioned, as the spirit might hear, and suppose he was called ; they say the son of So-and-so. When the person that bears tidings of death comes to the camp of natives, he sits down without talking. On seeing a near relation, he stands up and walks over to him, sits down in front, and puts his.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive