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ghosts in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

YEAR
1880
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New South Wales
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ghosts in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

songs and dances from the " ghosts " of the ancestors of his tribe, or instead of calling them back to the presence of the living in the dim evening, might become the bard, the soothsayer, or, as the prophet, deliver the oracles of the gods. It is not possible to surmise how long a period of time m…

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3,402
Year
1,880
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3402
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Kamilaroi and Kurnai; Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt
Published
1880 public-domain Australian ethnographic book exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghosts
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
New South Wales and Victoria (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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songs and dances from the " ghosts " of the ancestors of his tribe, or instead of calling them back to the presence of the living in the dim evening, might become the bard, the soothsayer, or, as the prophet, deliver the oracles of the gods. It is not possible to surmise how long a period of time might be required for a tribe such as the Kiirnai to slowly progress from that point at which their primitive social history terminates, for them as well as for us, to an analogous position to that in which our Aryan ancestors first become visible to us in the dim and distant past. But, as regards any Australian aborigines, I think it is.

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