RECORD ID

3649

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

^aid, bury in any soft ground which may happen to be near, but some tribes have regular burying-grounds which have been used for generations, and are considered sacred. To these a corpse will be brought from a distance of many miles. " My black boy," says a friend, " wishes to be buried where he was reared." This is the idea of kinship and clanship even in spirit-land. I need not compare with this similar practices and desires in aU ages and countries. DEATH AND BUEIAL, 83 Wlierever a tribe inters the dead, after the grave is neatly dug, the body is slung on a long pole borne on the shoulders of two relatives, and is carried thus.

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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