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spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2

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1878
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Western Australia
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spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2

ther demon, or to the Waifo men. I am of ojiiniou that the natives generally do not believe that their women have a future state or are endowed with souls. Yet they certainly believed that the white people, when they first arrived, were theh- deceased ancestors re-incarnated. Before the arrival of…

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3,532
Year
1,878
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Internet Archive
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Record ID
3532
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; R. Brough Smyth
Published
1878 public-domain Victorian and Tasmanian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
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Spirit-Person Narratives
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spirit
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
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Swan River, WA (WA): high; Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
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WA
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ther demon, or to the Waifo men. I am of ojiiniou that the natives generally do not believe that their women have a future state or are endowed with souls. Yet they certainly believed that the white people, when they first arrived, were theh- deceased ancestors re-incarnated. Before the arrival of a ship from Europe, the Swan River natives supposed that the spirits of the deceased passed into the cormorants which frequent the Mewstoue, a granite rock some miles out in the sea opposite the mouth of the Swan River, called by them Gudu mitch, a compound of Gu~urt, the "heart," and ?)iit or mitch, the "medium" or "agent" — signifying.

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