RECORD ID

3056

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Western Australia; Albert Frederick Calvert

AUTHOR

Not specified

vage is devouringly fond of music, but it has some- times the reverse of a soothing effect upon him, for instance, when it takes the form of a war song. Diu-ing 32 THE ABORIGINES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. the singing of one of these he rushes madly up and down, stamping and jumping in an ever increasing frenzy. And yet to the eye, when the words of one of these spirit stirring ditties are coldly set up in type, there seems but scanty material out of which to get up sc much superheated steam. Here is a specimen of a well-known war song. " Yu-do dan na Nando danna ! (Staccato !) My-eree danna Goor doo danna Boon £;a-la danna (with a.

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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