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medicine man in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

YEAR
1904
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medicine man in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

, one on each wrist. Kaitish tribe. Atnllinga — Pointing-sticks. Kaitish tribe. GLOSSARY OF NATIVE TERMS USED 747 AUimga — Avenging party. Arunta tribe. Atninga unterrima — Name of series of ceremonies attendant on the despatch of the atninga party. Arunta tribe. Atninja — Name of moon. Arunta trib…

Record ID
3,345
Year
1,904
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3345
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1904 public-domain Central Australian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Descriptive Belief Records
Public-text label
medicine man
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Central Australia: B
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, one on each wrist. Kaitish tribe. Atnllinga — Pointing-sticks. Kaitish tribe. GLOSSARY OF NATIVE TERMS USED 747 AUimga — Avenging party. Arunta tribe. Atninga unterrima — Name of series of ceremonies attendant on the despatch of the atninga party. Arunta tribe. Atninja — Name of moon. Arunta tribe. Atnin7ti — Mother’s brothers. Kaitish tribe. Atnirinja — -Spirit of dead individual. Kaitish tribe. Atnitta lirima — Endowing the intestines with sight, so that a man can detect the unfaithfulness of his wife or the approach of a kurdditcha. Atnitta idpdilima — Striking the stomachs of men during ceremonies with the head or a stone..

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