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spirit in Across Australia, volume 2

to the savage. It was only after considerable persuasion that the old man had consented to show us how the poison stick was used. Fig. 171. YOUNG MAN OF THE UNMATJERA TRIBE, FULL FACE. Fig. 172. MAN OF THE UNMATJERA TRIBE. Fig- J73- KNOCKING OUT TOOTH, KAITISH TRIBE (p. 332). xiii KAITISH AND UNMAT…

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3,114
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1,912
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3114
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Across Australia, volume 2; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
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1912 public-domain travel and ethnographic text exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
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Spirit-Person Narratives
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spirit
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Federation Era
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Central Australia: B
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to the savage. It was only after considerable persuasion that the old man had consented to show us how the poison stick was used. Fig. 171. YOUNG MAN OF THE UNMATJERA TRIBE, FULL FACE. Fig. 172. MAN OF THE UNMATJERA TRIBE. Fig- J73- KNOCKING OUT TOOTH, KAITISH TRIBE (p. 332). xiii KAITISH AND UNMATJERA TRIBES 327 When once he had started he entered into the spirit of the thing, firmly believing, of course, that he was projecting the evil magic with which the stick was charged. On this occasion, there was no one into whom he was anxious to project the magic, and therefore when the performance was over and he felt dizzy, he.

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