magic man in Across Australia, volume 1
re now able to do the same. While we were with them, the leading rain-man performed a ceremony, and, within two days of the performance, there was a downpour — possibly associated with the fact that it was the usual time of the year for rains to fall in that part of the country. Whether this was so…
- Record ID
- 3,070
- Year
- 1,912
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- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 3070
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Across Australia, volume 1; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
- Published
- 1912 public-domain travel and ethnographic text exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
- Narrative type
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- magic man
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Central Australia: B; Lake Eyre, SA (SA): high
- State or territory
- SA
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re now able to do the same. While we were with them, the leading rain-man performed a ceremony, and, within two days of the performance, there was a downpour — possibly associated with the fact that it was the usual time of the year for rains to fall in that part of the country. Whether this was so or not, at all events the reputation of the rain-maker as a magic man of no mean order was firmly I'ig. 4. KIXICNT DKl'OSITS FORMINC, TMK PLAINS AROUND LAKE EYRE INFRINT.INO ON THE OLDER GRANITIC ROCKS FORMINC. THE SLfRROUNDING HILLS. THE MOfND SPRINGS ARISE AROUND THE MARGIN OF THE PLAIN. Fig. 5. GIDDEA TREE. 11 LAKE EYRE REGION 15.
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