RECORD ID

3370

FIGURE

Ancestral Being

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

ancestral being

PUBLICATION

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

f the rain totem group in the Kaitish tribe — Relationship between a man and his totemic animal or plant in the Kaitish and Unmatjera — Members of totemic groups are responsible for ensuring the supply of the totemic animal or plant — The origin of the totemic ancestors in the Warramunga nation — Members of each totemic group are the direct offspring of one ancestral being — Ancestor changing totem in the Warra- munga tribe — Loss of association between the individual and the Churinga in the northern tribes — Clear division of totemic groups between the two moieties of the tribe in the Warramunga — Members of one moiety taking.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

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2. 02Boylya 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
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