RECORD ID

3136

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Across Australia, volume 2; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

ed again by an older man (Fig. 295). This little ceremony has the object of enabling the men, who are thus rubbed with stones representing parts of the kangaroo, to go out into the bush and catch kangaroos more easily than they would otherwise be able to do. Above Miradji there lie two more rock-holes, both intimately associated with the Wollunqua, who left spirit children here ; indeed, the oldest of the natives who accompanied us was the reincarnation of one of these individuals, and his personal and secret name, Marunqua- 4i4 ACROSS AUSTRALIA ch. xvn gnuna, was derived from Marunqua, the native name of the upper and smaller of.

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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