magician in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia
ern men ; as also the ciaunt, or tune, if it may be BO called, to which the dniice is performed. The dfluoo is generally performed by the young men. Women saldom take any part in it. Their dances frequently represent »fbB chase, and motions of the kangaroo and emu, the pursdit of a wounded cockatoo…
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- 2091
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- A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia; George Fletcher Moore
- Published
- 1842
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- magician
- Archive period
- Early Colonial
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- Western Australia (WA): B
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- WA
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ern men ; as also the ciaunt, or tune, if it may be BO called, to which the dniice is performed. The dfluoo is generally performed by the young men. Women saldom take any part in it. Their dances frequently represent »fbB chase, and motions of the kangaroo and emu, the pursdit of a wounded cockatoo, tho course of tt snnke, the trausformatiotis or feats of a magician with » *»"°i as well aa the measured step and concerted moveweut of « dance of ten or twelve persons ; and, although the figures are somewhat uncouth, the gestores are not ungr'"'^, ' ' and as secu in the forest on b clear night, by the trig it I blaze of a fij'e,.
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