RECORD ID

3529

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; R. Brough Smyth

AUTHOR

Not specified

; another word has therefore to be invented for the object after which the child was called. I knew a man whose name was Karia (not Calor), which signifies "fire" or "heat ;" when he died, another word had to be used for " fire ;" hence the language is always changing. I am not aware of any word in Western Australia to denote a Supreme Being or even a good spirit. Intermaeriages. My friend the late Mr. W. H. Knight, of Swan River, kindly sent me, last year, a copy of Bishop Salvado's Genealogical Tree of the natives of Western Australia, from which it appears that they are divided into six families, and intermarriages within a.

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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