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1912
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spirits in Across Australia, volume 2

white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white-ant eggs, thrown down here by some women called Munga-Munga who belonged to the yam totem. They were sent away to the east from a place close to Tennant Creek by the ancestor of the black-snake totem, carrying their yams with them. These were…

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3,129
Year
1,912
Source
Internet Archive
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3129
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Across Australia, volume 2; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
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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spirits
Archive period
Federation Era
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Central Australia: B
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white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white-ant eggs, thrown down here by some women called Munga-Munga who belonged to the yam totem. They were sent away to the east from a place close to Tennant Creek by the ancestor of the black-snake totem, carrying their yams with them. These were Churinga, and they deposited them (Fig. 291) along with the spirits associated with them, at various places as they travelled on towards and across the country of the Worgaia tribe ; indeed one of the old Worgaia men with us was the reincarnation of one of these yam spirits. As we rode slowly along, the natives keeping pace with us on.

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