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spirit in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

YEAR
1904
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SOURCE
Internet Archive
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spirit in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

s pregnant, the child, when born, is regarded as the reincarna- tion of one of the spirit ancestors associated with that spot, and therefore it belongs to that particular totemic group. Every one of their ancestors is also believed to have been a member of one of the four classes or eight subclasse…

Record ID
4,189
Year
1,904
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
4189
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1904 public-domain Central Australian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Central Australia: B
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s pregnant, the child, when born, is regarded as the reincarna- tion of one of the spirit ancestors associated with that spot, and therefore it belongs to that particular totemic group. Every one of their ancestors is also believed to have been a member of one of the four classes or eight subclasses into which the tribe is now divided. As a general rule the spirit is supposed to enter a woman whose children are born into the class to which it, the spirit, itself belongs, but every now and again they go into the wrong mother, with the result that they are born into the wrong class. The individual can thus in successive.

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