spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales

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3634

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The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

Published

1892

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Spirit-Person Narratives

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spirit

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Federation Era

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New South Wales (NSW): B

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NSW

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stache. I suppose that a black man thought that this adjunct to his nose-tip improved his personal appearance or made him look terrible in battle ; but, as in the case of the body scars, I believe there is some relio^ious significance at the base of it originally ; for, in certain localities, the blacks say that unless a man's nose has been thus pierced his spirit will be subjected to great indignities when he is dead. Hence the women also wear the nose-bone. Our blacks allow their hair to grow wild ; they merely cut it when it is too long. Many of them, both men and women, have fine frizzly hair; others have straight hair ; in.

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