RECORD ID

3634

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

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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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