RECORD ID

4218

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia; Baldwin Spencer

AUTHOR

Not specified

ungarai tribe, the sexes are supposed to alternate at each successive re- incarnation. In the Nullakun tribe the old times, during which the ancestors walked about the country, are called Musmus, and each of them has his place of origin, called Kundungini. Like one of them, a rainbow man, called Kulakulungini, each of them is supposed to have had numbers of spirit children who emanated from them when they shook their bodies during the performance of corrobborees. It is these who are now constantly entering lubras, and being born. After death the spirit 268 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. of the dead person, called.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

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