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magic man in Across Australia, volume 1

YEAR
1912
PLACE
South Australia
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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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
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
Archive detail (not indexed)

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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
Source voice
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Publicness
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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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