RECORD ID

3182

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Across Australia, volume 1; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

e they had come into existence, these ancestral people started to wander across the country — lizard people along one track, kangaroo people along aiiother, frog people along another, and so on right through the various totemic groups. Every one of these old ancestors carried with him, or her, a sacred stone or wooden slab, called a Churinga, with which the spirit part of the owner was supposed to be intimately associated. As they wandered over the Arunta country they made all the natural features — creeks, clay-pans, waterholes, hills and gorges — which are now familiar to the natives. At certain places they halted to perform.

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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