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magician in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia

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1842
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Western Australia
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magician in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia

and so on, until the surface reaches to a level with the upper ground ; and finally sand or earth is strewed over the top. Whilst all that is above described is going on, the magician, or Bolyagadak, of the tribe, sits wrapped in his cloak at the head of the grave, bending his ear from time to time…

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Year
1,842
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2093
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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
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Early Colonial
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Western Australia (WA): B
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WA
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and so on, until the surface reaches to a level with the upper ground ; and finally sand or earth is strewed over the top. Whilst all that is above described is going on, the magician, or Bolyagadak, of the tribe, sits wrapped in his cloak at the head of the grave, bending his ear from time to time to the ground, attentively listening for the flight of the spirit, and the communication it may have to make as to the evil origi- nator or cause of his death ; and having feigned to obtain this intelligence, he raises his miro in silence, and points in the direction where the enemy is to be found who has ' robbed the tribe of a.

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