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- ghost in Australia Felix#3033him, and a loud voice shouted: "Boh, you old beef-brains! Boh to a goose!" Displeased at such horseplay, Mahony stepped sharply back--his first thought was of Ned having unexpectedly returned from Mount Ararat. Then rec…
- ghost in Australia Felix#3032less their fee was planked down before them--old stagers these, who at one time had been badly bitten and were now grown cynically distrustful. Or tired. And indeed who could blame a man for hesitating of a pitch-dark n…
- ghost in Australia Felix#3031d said: "What's the matter, dear? Are you ill?" In replying to her he disturbed the children, the door of whose room stood ajar; and by the time quiet was restored, further sleep was out of the question. He dressed and…
- ghost in Australia Felix#3030believed him not averse from winning by unjust means. Yet, on the whole, he thought this mortified him less than to feel that he had been written down a Simple Simon, whom it was easy to impose on. Ah well! At best he h…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4218ungarai 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 hi…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4217the sexes are supposed to alternate at each successive incarnation. In the Yungman tribe there is precisely the same belief in regard to the origin of children as in the Mungarai. For example, a Nanung, or sugar-bag (ho…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4216and always, so my native informant told me, on the look-out for the right lubra. Again, at Crescent Lagoon, the old ancestor Namaran, the thunder man, deposited numbers of spirit children, and, if a Ngaritjbellan woman…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4215RD TO ORIGIN OF CHILDREN 267 bar, on the Roper River, there is a large gum tree full of spirit children, all of them belonging to one of the totems associated with the Nakomara sub-class, and always, so my native inform…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4214As in the case of the snake Uruanda,^ they made the country with all its natural features as they walked along. Wherever they stopped they performed ceremonies, and, when doing so, shook themselves,^ with the result tha…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4213he Arunta tribe — is called Kurnallan. During this time the old ancestors walked about. Each one had his original home, called Burnamandu. As in the case of the snake Uruanda,^ they made the country with all its natural…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4212m them on points such as these, and I did not have the opportunity of coming in contact with less civilised members of these tribes. The Port Essington natives believe that, at first, there were no real human beings, bu…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4198grass, the ceremony is at an end, and they go back to camp. Anyone coming across the remains of the trench, and seeing the stones and log piled up above the small mound, knows that evil magic has been performed. It is s…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#4183nd said to the old man, ameina; ngai wariji? what is it; shall I die? The old man answered, owoi, kutjeri ngeinyimma pari, wariji, yes, by and by you (will be) very ill, (you will) die. Nothing happened for a long time,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4171the peindi, the front man knocks the stick representing it into the fire on the top of the korno. All of them shout. Ah, Ah, Ah; Ach, Ach, Bmg, Bmg ! at the top of their voices. Without a moment's pause, stones and eart…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4170p quiet," the idea being that the birds they represent will thereby be persuaded not to give notice to the victim that any danger such as a snake or crocodile threatens him. Then the men sway about, looking as fierce as…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4169led Mormo. 3. Wax sphere made from Murkailpu sugar-bag. 4. Wax sphere made from TjaillDa sugar-bag. 5. Wax sphere made from Tjinangu sugar-bag. 6. Feather of Jimeribunna (native companion). 7. Feather of Kaleiyu (yellow…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4168the other end. The performers squat down at one side of the fire, the men in a line, one behind the other, the woman slightly to one side (Fig. 64). The general arrangement can be seen in Plate XI. When the fire is hot…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4167certainly enjoy, is over, the bones are carefully collected, wrapped in paper bark, and placed on a tree platform called kalla- kalla} If, for example, a Mumbali man dies, then Murungun men actually put them on the plat…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4166l des- troyed. ' The Kakadu have a word, ardi, which means the total personal belongings of any individual. R 2 244 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. After the water pouring is finished, the men take the charcoa…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4165rit of the dead woman : — 'Tjukororu, lie down ; koyada, don't, ngeinyimma, you, workai, come back ; tjukororu, lie down ; kala, a word meaning all right, just so, etc. ; bialilla, children ; unkore- gora, see ; iwaiyu,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4164Grave. Kakauu Tribe. \_Face page 24J. VI BURIAL AND MOURNING CEREMONIES 241 following words, which were supposed to be addressed to the spirit of the dead woman : — 'Tjukororu, lie down ; koyada, don't, ngeinyimma, you,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4163e file round the grave. This walking round is called Kulorbuto. As they walked round they sang the I'ig- 57- Cakkyi.N(; the Konv, wkal'Ped in Taper Bark, to the Grave. Kakadu Tribe. Fig. 58. Placing Stones on the newlv-…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4162t from the short final scene, when they were clearly supposed to be mourning, there was certainly not the slightest indication of sorrow. Everyone was very excited, but, between the dances, they laughed and talked as if…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4161g himself, joined the audience; he was nearly played out and the two men, the black and the yellow, took up the running, rushing round and round, pausing [*y-a3!. r VI BURIAL AND MOURNING CEREMONIES 237 every now and th…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#4160ribal fathers of the dead man, went into it so as to singe the hair off their legs and arms. They must do this or else they will be seriously ill. Then all the men ran round and round in the smoke, after which they gath…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3872ot, the women may eat. The old men also can make it fit for younger men to eat at this place by breaking the fish's neck. Mischievous spirits, belonging to another tribe, some- times place Nuppadaitba bones that they ha…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3871alled Mungauilada, only Kakadu men may eat them, no one else may do so under very severe penalties. If anyone should venture to break this rule and to attempt to catch and eat them there, his eyes and ears would swell u…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3870rub. While he is asleep, the friendly Yalmuru, or Iwaiyu, who 3i8 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. has rescued him, tells him that he has been taken away by a Yalmuru who belongs to another country or, as he sa…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3869ey also talk to him. Sometimes a medicine man happens to be close by when he comes back to the Banyan tree after one of his fishing excursions. Bubba Peibi says, Koyada ngainma bo, don't hit me. The medicine man says, K…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3868nd cooks his fish there. Within the tree, also, he has a wife and children. The ordinary black-fellow cannot see him, but the Margi, or medicine men, can, and they also talk to him. Sometimes a medicine man happens to b…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3867, and, when once he has passed, either in or out, it closes up. At the top of the trunk there is a hole through which air comes in. He makes a fire inside the trunk and cooks his fish there. Within the tree, also, he ha…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3866min, handing the snake to Mukurlul, said, kara pierda, hold it hard. Koregora pierda, balera, poro mornda, look hard (or) afterwards your eyes will be bad. Then he put the snake under Mukurlul's arm, saying, the snake i…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3865Mornun, and Gunumaramila, are kumali to a man who is being made into a doctor. They all belong to what are called " hot " yams, which must be specially treated before being eaten, or else they cause much irritation in t…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3864min had a son called Mukurlul. When he grew old he said to the latter, balera ngaiya^ wariji, later on I die ; balera ngeinyimma unkoregora Numereji, later on you look out Numereji, which meant that the son was I The wo…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3863got a new Numereji. In the Kakadu tribe there is a close association between Numereji and the medicine men. They alone are sup- posed not only to be able to see him, but to have eyes that can withstand his glance ; othe…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3862his younger brother. Joemin had a son, called Mukurlul, and Numuraupu had one, called Kardimenjil. Joemin had stolen a small Numereji snake which he cut in two. The front half grew a new short tail, the hinder half died…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3861aper bark and ties it round with string. In his camp, when it is quite dry, he pounds it up until he can roll it into a ball and then, as in the previous case, places it in a hole that he makes in the base of an ant hil…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3860eans of dealing in a very special way with some of his excrement or korno. Because of this, everyone is most careful to cover over and hide from view all excrementa, one result of which is that Kakadu camps are more cle…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3859it is being carried about by a Belier youth, the old men immediately send a message to a medicine man living in a distant part of the country called Bebiba. The medicine man, who is known as Kuldungun, comes at once but…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3858the Bidu-Bidu are broken up and completely destroyed by fire. This is very different indeed from what takes place in the Central tribes, amongst whom the loss or destruction of a Churinga is a very serious matter. If a…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3857ed Spirit at the close of the Korno Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 260 66.— The Old and the Young Numereji Snake. A Bark Drawing. Kakadu Tribe . . . 313 67. — Bubba Peibi from a Drawing on Bark . . . .313 68.— Medicine Man rubb…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3856ribe. ... . . 244 63.— Child's Bones carried about in Dilly Bag by her Mother. Kakadu Tribe. 248 64. — Ceremony of Korno 258 65.— Placing Sticks over the Buried Spirit at the close of the Korno Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 26…
- devil in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3855put inside this with the four boys. It was a tight fit, and they were all closely huddled together. Then there came another shark dance, accompanied by a song, consisting of the repetition of the simple refrain, " the s…
- ghost in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3854rnu. Firm piferda. Fish, general term for ... nknjil. Fish net tjipbiyu. Flesh tjali. Flower, general term for . . piru6ngo. Fog tjorlul. Food, general term for . . . jam. Foot kup^ri. Foot, sole of kungnkdingbi. Forbid…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3853of, 24a shown the lurkun or coffin, Mungarai tribe, 252 ; Mara tribe, 255 not allowed near hut of young medicine man, Kakadu tribe, 299 restrictions on eating nuperdaitba, a fish, 319 two Nareuma, tradition of, 322 send…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3852initiation ceremony, 169 totemic system, 208 Numalga or Numalka, 385 Numereji, a snake, traditions con- cerning, 290 and the medicine man, 292, 295 in anthill, 295 men, tradition of two, 299 men changing into snakes, 30…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3851tribe, 315 Marukumana, 93 et seq. Marunga, medicine man, 298 Marungwum, iio, 114 McDougall's bluff, tradition con- cerning, 337 510 INDEX Medicine men and Numereji, 292 securing a Numereji snake, 295, 296 eyes made brig…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3850y a rainbow man, 338 Honey-bags found by two Nu- mereji men, 301 Humour, sense of, amongst aboriginals, 41 Hut, special one, in which initiates are hidden, Melville Island, 104 attack on, 107 special ones used during ce…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3849e, 239 and mourning ceremonies, Wadu- man tribe, 249 Mungarai tribe, 251 Mara tribe, 255 Burial of child, Larakia tribe, 251 Burning grass stained with men- strual blood, 327 hut in which girl has sat during menstrual p…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3848round in which fire is made during Tjilaiyu ceremony. Kakadu Tribe, name of a special snake. Kakadu Tribe, mother's brother. Mungarai Tribe, spirit children. Waduman Tribe, name of a tribe. word for Totem. Mudburra Trib…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3847ngkri Ningbrnu or Ying6rna , Ninibura-bSra . . . Noaianji . Nobbila . Nongura . No6rnb£rri N6rkun . Normo, see Ng Norweilfemil Noudbukkra Nub6. go . . Nukaitka NuUkbSrri sugar-bag or honey-comb. Yungman Tribe, hole in g…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3846adu Tribe, spirit of dead person. Melville Island, name of a tribe, brush-tailed wallaby men during the Ober ceremony. Kakadu Tribe. special man during Kakadu Tribe, special man during Kakadu Tribe. Kakadu Tribe, the ne…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3845be heard singing out, yirkudda, quick, Koafungi, daylight, nungoitji, cold. They can be seen by the margi, or medicine man, wandering about in the bush, the man carrying a basket (drawn hanging from his left shoulder) i…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3844ich is covered all over with hair, called ngoinbu, and has also two masses called krabir, one on either side of its head. This particular spirit is friendly to the natives and flies about watching them. If it sees a nat…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3843ark nights. It lives amongst the bamboo trees, hanging on to special ropes made out of banyan-bark string, called Mokino- F F 2 436 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. borbu. It has flaps projecting from its body,…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3842h the natives always see on the hill tops at night time ' when the Auuenau is prowling about. The straight lines above and below the hands and behind and under the feet indicate maggots. The spirits are supposed to wand…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3841bones that the spirit has taken from dead men and fastened on itself From the pelvis there is a downward projection, supposed to represent the mulowa, or lightning which the natives always see on the hill tops at night…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3840hair, called ifimp. There is a great bunch of hair projecting from the back of the head, and from the neck a long, stiff, curved spine hangs down which can be erected and , waggled about, so that the natives can hear it…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3839ng men and, if he finds one alone in the bush, tries to lure him away and take his Iwaiyu, or spirit part, from him. The only way in which the Iwaiyu can be recovered is by the aid of a medicine man, who, earring a Nume…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3838t hand is called Nangintain, and is a spirit associated especially with the Geimbio tribe. This is one of those mischievous individuals who, every now and then, leaves his own country and visits the Kakadu and other nei…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3837buried. They put their hands on the dead man, talk to him, and try to make F F 434 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. him get up, but cannot do so. Then they make cor- robborees and when they go away, other spiri…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3836club and in his left a bunch of feathers called niaru. These Ingwalin are supposed to visit the tree grave, or wurkara, in which a dead native is buried. They put their hands on the dead man, talk to him, and try to mak…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3835den snatch at it and caught its head. No one but himself and Mukalakki could see it. He held it very firmly and carefully unwound it from Mukalakki's body. When he had done this successfully, he rolled the snake up in h…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3834ma kutjeri, what have you eaten (to make) you ill ? Mukalakki remembered what the old man had told him long ago and he answered, Kuljoanjo. Then the old doctor said, umhordera wariji — to-day you die. He was very ill th…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3833He immediately places it in the mother's head, from which it passes down into her breast and the child, who is at once put to the breast, drinks it in with its mother's milk, or Kumilungornu. If the father finds out, wh…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3832rit would immediately leave its body, run to the water hole, and be drawn under and swallowed up by a Numereji snake. If, 346 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. by any chance, the mother breaks the rule, the fath…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3831ld is born, and while it is young, the woman must not drink out of a deep water hole, the water must not reach above her knees ; the husband tells the woman that she must not break this rule or the child will die. Also,…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3830d men may eat it. It must also be struck with a short throwing stick, called mumbarnbo, while it is still on the spear point. If these conditions are complied with, and unless there be a good supply of fish probably the…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3829lmurus ai other tribes come into their (that is, the Kakadu) country in order to work evil magic. This can only be frustrated by means of the careful watch that the Yalmuru of each Kakadu native is supposed to keep over…
- medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3828s. In the early days Joemin was the first medicine man, and he made others, and showed them what had to be done. At first Joemin's eyes were like those of other men, and he could not see Numereji. One day he went to a w…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3827e fish, the Yalmuru goes into the water and drives them into the man's chipoiyu or fishing net, if it be mormo or " sugar-bag," he guides him to the tree in which the bees have made their hive. In either case, as soon a…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3826moinja lata lungin, Ngaidjan anoadja tjumba angebir, which means. You go away to another country, where you stop leave Ngaidjan behind. She did so, and the natives say that, when leaving them behind. viii BELIEFS IN REG…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3825th down when performing the sacred ceremonies during which they are supposed to simulate the old ancestors. When they thus shake themselves, little bits of down tumble off just as the spirits used, originally, to emanat…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3824of the body is a very characteristic feature in the totemic ceremonies of many tribes. It was very much in evidence amongst the Warramunga, who decorate themselves profusely with down when performing the sacred ceremoni…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3823Mr. Gillen, was supposed to be the reincarnation of one of them named Urangara. The Arunta believe that when any individual dies his spirit part goes back, to his old camping place in the Alcheringa, inhabiting some spe…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3822mbers of spirit children who were deposited in certain places and it is these who now enter women and are born in the form of human beings, as well, of course, as the spirits of the great leaders themselves. My late col…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3821n great men and women, leaders of the various groups in the far past times, called Alcheringa, who had definite names. They carried VIII BELIEFS IN REGARD TO ORIGIN OF CHILDREN 265 with them numbers of spirit children w…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3820st and Melville Islands. The traditions in regard to their ancestors in all these tribes are very explicit. Amongst the Arunta, for example, there were certain great men and women, leaders of the various groups in the f…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3819ing the mother. — Account given by Ungara, a Kakadu native. — The old Yalmuru disappears and the Iwaiyu becomes the new Yalmuru. One of the most striking features of the native tribes in Central and Northern Australia,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3818tically a thing of the past, for the tribe is now decimated in numbers and degenerate in habits. The Muraian of the Kakadu will not survive for long. <2 2 CHAPTER VI BURIAL AND MOURNING CEREMONIES Melville and Bathurst…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3817a. The latter are associated with individual human beings, the former, save in the one case of the original Muraian, who was supposed to have been swimming about in the water in the form of a turtle, are always totemic…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3816rried a netted string bag and, in this, her kunapippi wrapped up in paper bark. From Miram-mi-idji, where she left many 2i8 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. spirit children, she walked underground and came out…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3815oper Plains over which, at one place, the water pours in torrents during the rain season. Here, in the far past times, there arose a woman of the Ngapalieri sub-class and kunapippi totem. She carried a netted string bag…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3814must touch it. The Mungarai have a detailed tradition dealing with the way in which they first became possessed of the sticks. In the far away times that they call Kurnallan there existed a very big man named Kunapippi.…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3813hose of the Larakia, reaching a length of two and a half feet, and 214 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. are carried by messengers, who go out to summon members of distant groups to take part in sacred cere- mon…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3812lowed to see one. This belief, held by the women and children, is apparently widely spread over the whole of Central and Northern Australia and was probably, at one time, universal in its distribution amongst Australian…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3811pear to be any tradition with regard to the association of any particular bull-roarer with a special ancestor. Nor do we meet with anything corresponding to the Ertnatulunga or sacred storing places in which the Arunta…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3810in which the living person has the same totem as the old ancestor of whom he, or she, is supposed to be the re- incarnation. In regard to their totemic system, the group of tribes that have the Imberombera legend, or it…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3809plant. The Kakadu group of tribes is evidently much modified N 2 i8o NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. in many ways, and In none more so than in regard to their totemic system. The question of totems is closely…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3808en the moieties or classes, the same group occurring on both sides of the tribe, but the totemic groups are exogamous, and the totem descends in the female line. In others, moieties and classes do not exist, and in thes…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3807long to the sub-class Jobal he is shown, during this the final stage of his initiation, ceremonies that are concerned with the totemic groups of that par- ticular sub-class. It is during the performance of these that, f…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3806TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. taken by the namminjeri first to the father. He gives it to the boy's mother and she takes it away and either places it in a hollow trunk or buries it in the bank of a lagoon where lil…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3805themselves along the two sides ; the boy who, at this particular stage, is known by the status term Ikmurli, sits at one end close to the bough shelter, watched over by his namminj eri. He is naturally very frightened,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3804ferent camps to indicate approximately the locality of their occupants. Thus, for example, men from the west will be found on Ill INITIATION CEREMONIES 165 the west side of the camp, men from the east on the east side,…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3803ding to one side beating time with sticks. The per- formers were supposed to be young emus wandering about, and the man who lifted them up represented their mother. After the emu ceremony was over two men came in from t…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3802dji. He sits down on the koar ground with his head bent low so that he cannot see what is taking place. Some of the old men paint themselves and come up behind him whirling the bull-roarers. The pappam tells the boy to…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3801t cases, simply daubed red or yellow ochre over themselves, with little attempt at design. When the decorations were complete, there was a short pause, and then the men began to walk round and round the ground, singing…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3800he usual term for one being irruwunni. This may perhaps be a remnant of an aspect of the ceremony which, at one time, was more strongly developed than it is now on Melville Island, and that is the seclusion of the initi…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3799ot a trace behind them to indicate their former existence. The organisation is now entirely local. In the far past time their mythic ancestor, Imberombera, sent out different pairs of individuals to various parts of the…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3798hose called Muraian amongst the Kakadu, to which reference has already been made. There are no Nurtunjas nor Waningas nor ground drawings, that figure so largely in the southern part of the Territory, but, through all t…