medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2
e man must abstain from. He may not eat fat or warm meat, neither must he inhale the smoke from burning bones nor go near to the nest of the large " bull-dog " ant (a species of Myrmecia), because if he were bitten by one of these, his medical powers would depart from him for xiii KAITISH AND UNMAT…
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- 3,162
- Year
- 1,912
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- Internet Archive
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- 3162
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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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- medicine man
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Central Australia: B
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e man must abstain from. He may not eat fat or warm meat, neither must he inhale the smoke from burning bones nor go near to the nest of the large " bull-dog " ant (a species of Myrmecia), because if he were bitten by one of these, his medical powers would depart from him for xiii KAITISH AND UNMATJERA TRIBES 337 ever. At Barrow Creek there was an erstwhile medicine man who had become disqualified as a practitioner, simply because he had, inadvertently, taken a drink of hot tea. The method of initiation into the profession, as conducted by a medicine man, is naturally very different from that of the Iruntarinia. A young man.
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