RECORD ID

3138

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

wn — that would be found out later on. All sacred ceremonies were suspended, and the whole camp entered with zest into the very serious business of performing properly the various mourning ceremonies. The etiquette of mourning is elaborate, and the omission to do what was proper would indicate a want of respect which would be much resented by the dead man's spirit. On the camping ground several men were lying hors de combat with gashed thighs. They had done their duty, and henceforth in token of this would be marked with deep scars. On one of these men we counted no fewer than twenty-three such scars that had been inflicted at.

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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