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- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3797rous original ancestors for each group, passing through the Warramunga with its one ancestor for each group, and then on to the Kakadu with its single great, original ancestor for all the groups. In some tribes, such as…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3796own secret name. In the -Kakadu, on the other hand, the name of every ancestor is known and every member of the tribe bears that ancestor's as his or her name in common, everyday use. In some tribes, such as the Warramu…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3795s. The Kakadu beliefs are amongst the most definite that we have. Without going into details which are explained later, it may be said there was one great ancestor, named Imberombera, who was responsible, originally, fo…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3794ibes so widely different from one another in many other respects as the Dieri, Arunta, Waduman, Mara, Kakadu, and Melville Islanders. The Kakadu beliefs are amongst the most definite that we have. Without going into det…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3793s, and the cere- monies associated with the erection of the posts are amongst the wildest that I have seen in the whole of the Northern Territory. Varied though these tribes are in regard to their organisations and cust…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3792is a decided tendency for the totemic groups to be divided between the two moieties and for the descent to follow in the paternal line. (l>) The tribe is not divided into moieties nor classes, but there are a number of…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3791o classes and sub-classes amongst all of which the totemic groups are irregularly distributed, so that the same group is present in each moiety. Descent is neither in the maternal nor paternal line, and the totem of the…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3790ille Island tribe, amongst whom no classes are found, the totem descends in the maternal line. The most modified amongst these northern tribes in regard to their totemic system are undoubtedly the Kakadu, Geimbio, Kulun…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3789h their localities. — Physical appearance of the natives. — No Malay admixture. — Cicatrices. — Larakia woman with joint of index finger cut off. — Small number of children in each family. — Organisation of the tribes,…
- spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3788— Water-pouring Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe .... 242 61.— Men Painting themselves and Children with Nack. Kakadu Tribe ... 244 62.— Women wearing Armlets called Kundama, during Mourning Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe. ... . . 244 63…
- Numereji in Magic and Medicine#1328king out of a deep water hole its spirit would Immediately leave its body, run to the water hole, and be drawn under and swallowed up by a Numereji snake. If, {p. 346} by any chance, the mother breaks the rule, the fath…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1327ild 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,…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1273At length Morpun, the great medicine man, arrived. For a while he stood silently, some distance off, watching Mukalakki. First he ordered the women to go away, along way off. Mukalakki sat up. Once more the snake came o…
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1272The natives, realising the gravity of the case, had sent away to a place, called Oenpelli, fourteen miles away, for a special, celebrated medicine man, named Morpun, who fortunately happened to be reincarnated at that t…
- spirit in Magic and Medicine#1271The spirit, or Iwaiyu, of Kuljoanjo had twisted itself round inside his body and, every now and then, came out through his forehead, rattled its teeth and hissed and looked straight into his eyes.
- Medicine man in Magic and Medicine#1270He was feeling very bad indeed and an old medicine man said to him ameina jau, ngeinyimma kutjeri, what have you eaten (to make) you ill?
- spirit in Magic and Medicine#1269by any chance, the mother breaks the rule, the father, mother, and child, accompanied by a medicine man, go to the water hole. The father gives the mother a little water in a bark basket. The spirit of the child is attr…
- spirit in Magic and Medicine#1268(3) After the child 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…
- spirit in Magic and Medicine#1267The penalties for eating these are as follows:--Jimeribunna, the child is born with yaws; Brutpenniweir, the child is born with a sore nose and mouth; Karakera, the child has sores under its arms; Kalerungeni, the child…
- 1914 - The Naming of Yowie Bay?#1078Public AYR report page for 1914 - The Naming of Yowie Bay?. No state or locality is asserted in the public page fields; retained as an Australia-level corpus record for dashboard/density only and excluded from strict ma…
- 1913 - Maitland Daily Mercury Yowie Article#884Public AYR report page for 1913 - Maitland Daily Mercury Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Maitland, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: Maitland Daily Mercury Yowie Article - Jan 8…
- 1913 - Bombala Times Yowie Article#883Public AYR report page for 1913 - Bombala Times Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Bombala, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: # bombala, james allen yowie
- 1913 - Henry Lawson Article#709Public AYR report page for 1913 - Henry Lawson Article. Location cue from public page title/path: New South Wales, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: Henry Lawson, 'The Hairy Man' , in Triangles of Life…
- devil in Across Australia, volume 1#3187w seed pods were produced and those that there were contained only ill-formed seeds. The only beetles really abundant were a few species of Curculios, or weevils, some of them clinging on to the twigs of the shrubs, oth…
- devil in Across Australia, volume 1#3186y, the dingo, was vanquished by the latter, who somehow came to realise the value of organisation. There may have been some other force at work, but the climate and the nature of the country in south-eastern Australia a…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3185head of the railway line. On this occasion, as soon as we had passed through the Heavitree Gap we noticed a great change in the place. The red gums bordering the river were still there, though we missed one ancient tree…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 1#3184A man who was being pursued by others would not be touched so long as he remained at this spot. If a native is chasing a wallaby or a kangaroo it is perfectly safe so long as it is quite close to one of these Ertnatulun…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3183ed. As they wandered over the Arunta country they made all the natural features — creeks, clay-pans, waterholes, hills and gorges — which are now familiar to the natives. At certain places they halted to perform ceremon…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3182e they had come into existence, these ancestral people started to wander across the country — lizard people along one track, kangaroo people along aiiother, frog people along another, and so on right through the various…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3181pied by his own local group. There never appears to be any attempt made to annex new country or to encroach in any way upon other tribes or groups. This is a result of the very firmly-fixed belief of the natives that th…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3180animal and the white the bones, a number of the younger men climb on to the top of the rock. There, to the accompaniment of chants sung by the other men who were grouped below on the ground, they open veins in their arm…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3179Dr. Stirling, Horn Expeditio7i Report, p. 67. A full description of the spot with its associated ceremonies and traditions is given in Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 193-201. V CHARLOTTE WATERS 97 the place. In…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3178d placed it in the cave where it died, the platform of rock arising to mark ' The first description of Undiara was given by Dr. Stirling, Horn Expeditio7i Report, p. 67. A full description of the spot with its associate…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 1#3177rike us with astonishment, he regards as simply the exhibition of magic of greater power than any possessed by himself ; but it is a difference in degree and not in kind. He therefore seldom exhibits any great surprise,…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3176Imirinja, name given to avengers, 298 India-rubber tree, 457 Indigofera, 163 Initiation ceremony, Urabunna tribe, 24 Irritja, a hawk, tradition of in Ura- bunna tribe, 24 Irruntarinia, spirits, making medicine- men, 335…
- devil in Across Australia, volume 2#3175il magic, 292 Decorating for corrobboree, 238 Decorations in Warramunga cere- monies, 397 Demoralisation of tribes, 301 Descent, counted in direct male line in Mara tribe, 479-80 Desert country around Lake Amadeus, 104…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3174doubt among the onlookers as to his having really done this. Then once more the projecting of the Atnongara stones is repeated, and after this, crouching down over the sick man, he places his mouth upon the affected par…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3173ll, the verdict is that one of the Iruntarinia has placed in his body an Ullinka, or short barbed stick attached to an invisible string, the pulling of which by the malicious spirit causes great pain. If such be the cas…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3172have come a long distance, gravely examines him and consults with any local practitioners who may be present, and with the more immediate relatives of the patient, as to the nature of the illness. The diagnosis always o…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3171rticular kind of lizard distributed through his body which endows him with great suctorial powers, such as the natives attribute to the lizard itself. In serious cases the action is often very dramatic, and the medicine…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3170ved. Among the western Arunta, especially, the medicine man, in addition to the 34Q ACROSS AUSTRALIA chap. Atnongara stones, is supposed to have a particular kind of lizard distributed through his body which endows him…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3169t every now and then pieces of wood, bone or stone, the presence of which is believed to be causing the injury and pain. This suction is one of the most characteristic features of native medical treatment, as pain in an…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3168r individual, though it is sometimes said, as we have heard on different occasions, that if a particular medicine man had been present he would have been able to counteract the influence of the enemy. Just as amongst ou…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3167state, but, when he had recovered, the medicine men told him that he might go back to his own camp. In case of sickness the natives have implicit trust in the medicine man, and in serious cases two or three, if they are…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3166as supplied with food by women who stood to him in the tribal relationship of mother, wife and elder but not younger sister. The treatment to which he had been subjected left him really in a very weak state, but, when h…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3165e Oruncha being the evil or at least the mischievous spirit of the Arunta. A long black line, down the centre of the drawing, on the body, represents the Oruncha himself, and the marks round it are supposed to be the ma…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3164ds behind his head and to put his tongue out. As he did this, one of the medicine men withdrew from his skull, just behind his ear, a thin sharp stone — one of the Atnongara — and, taking some dust from the ground, drie…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3163because if he were bitten by one of these, his medical powers would depart from him for xiii KAITISH AND UNMATJERA TRIBES 337 ever. At Barrow Creek there was an erstwhile medicine man who had become disqualified as a pr…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3162e man must abstain from. He may not eat fat or warm meat, neither must he inhale the smoke from burning bones nor go near to the nest of the large " bull-dog " ant (a species of Myrmecia), because if he were bitten by o…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3161these stones remain in his body he is capable of performing the work of a medicine man, but sometimes they are withdrawn, in which case they are supposed to return to the Iruntarinia from whom they originally came. With…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3160new insides, but they implant in his body a supply of small magic stones, called Atnongara, which he can project into the body of a patient, in whom they combat the evil influences at work within him. In modern language…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3159ternaturally solemn, as if he were the possessor of knowledge quite hidden from ordinary men. The Iruntarinia not only provide him with new insides, but they implant in his body a supply of small magic stones, called At…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3158and of powdered charcoal and fat across the bridge of his nose, and it is at once recognised that a new medicine man has graduated. He must not, however, according to the strict etiquette of his profession, engage in pr…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3157certain highly gifted medicine men and to the camp dogs, leads him back to his people. For several days the man remains more or less strange in his appearance and VOL. II G 336 ACROSS AUSTRALIA chap. behaviour, until, o…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3156must not go inside; if he did he would anger the Iruntarinia and be spirited away for ever. At break of day one of the Iruntarinia comes to the mouth of the cave and throws an invisible lance at the man which pierces hi…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3155hose who only hold a licentiate. The method of graduation, as conducted by the Iruntarinia, is as follows. About fourteen miles to the south of the Alice Springs station there is a shallow cave, called Okalpara, in a ra…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3154wo Orunchas were brothers. One day the elder started off after an old kangaroo, but, as he chased it, the rain came down in torrents and both of them got bogged in soft ground. As soon as ever the Oruncha lifted one leg…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3153irit. There is how- ever a better chance of recovery if the cause of illness be a poison bone or stick implanted in the body by a human being. If the medicine man be successful, the recovered patient ascertains who it w…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3152tient may be either a human being or one of the spirits. Only a medicine man who is himself very strong in magic has the slightest chance of treating successfully a patient suffering from the evil magic of a spirit. The…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3151ew of a Man of the Gnanji Tribe, showing the Method of Plaiting the hair . „ 462 340. — Lily Pool, Whanalura „ 468 341. — Leichardt Pine „ 472 342. — Parcel of Dead Man's Bones wrapped in Paper- bark and Placed in the F…
- medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2#3150ribe 167. — Elderly Woman, Side Face, Kaitish Tribe 168. — Elderly Woman, Full Face, Kaitish Tribe 169.— Man of the Kaitish Tribe 170. — Young Man of the Unmatjera Tribe, Side Face 171. — Young Man of the Unmatjera Trib…
- devil in Across Australia, volume 2#3149naming Finke River, 82-3 ; turned back by natives at Attack Creek, 442-3 Sturt Plains, 456 Styphelia mitchelli, the only species of the genus in Central Australia, 152 Sugar or honey bag, 371, 466-8 Sun-dew plant, 313 S…
- devil in Across Australia, volume 2#3148ra tribe, 479-80 Desert country around Lake Amadeus, 104 et seq. Desert oak (Causarina decaisneana), 79, in, 236 Desert Sandstone, 42, 92 ; used for stone implements, 373 Design of Oruncha drawn on medicine man, 338 Des…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3147-7, 484-5 Spears, of Arunta tribe, 194 ; of Anula tribe, 485 Spider, webs in scrub, 69 ; stridulating noise made by, 175 Spinif ex paradoxus, 78 Spirit children, spots inhabited by, Warramunga tribe, 410 Spirit, evil, s…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3146lunqua ceremonies, 396 et seq. Soakage, obtaining water from, 312 Sonder, Mt., 138, 151-4 Songs, corrobboree, 239-40 Son-in-law, general avoidance of mother-in-law by, 204 Spear-heads, stone, 378 Spear-throwers, 236-7,…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3145od by younger, 343 Olga, Mt., 104, 114, 121 et seq. Oodnadatta, 2, 9, 13, 19, 29, Tftetseq.^ 172, 184, 229 Ooraminna Range, 90, 136, 222, 225 Opossum, native method of catching, Organisation, of Urabunna tribe, 19 ; Aru…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3144class in the Urabunna tribe, 19 Kirra-urkna, girdle made from hair of dead man, 293 Knives, flaked stone, 373 et seq. ; Warramunga men making, 447 ; women's stone, 376 Knout, an article of magic in the Arunta tribe, 351…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3143special Churinga, 257 Ilkinia, name for totemic design, Arunta tribe, 287 Ilkunta, flaked sticks worn by members of avenging party, 293 Ilpirra tribe, 324 ; medicine men, 334 Imirinja, name given to avengers, 298 India-…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3142na vespcrtilio, the bean-tree, 3IO, 314 1 ia, 45, 62 Etiquette amongst natives, 452 vp/us eudesmoideSf 105 n Eucalyptus microtlieca, the swamp gum, 44, 76, S2 Eucalyfttus plalypoda, 449 Eucalyptus rostrata, the river gu…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#314180 ; fighting, 37 ; introduced into Australia, 30 ; loading and riding, 33-6 Campanotus, 180 Camp life amongst the Arunta, 246 ; Warramunga, 367 Camps, arrangements of natives in, 262 ; men's private, Arunta tribe, 293…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3140spirits called Mundadji and Munkaninji, who make medicine men, were walking about. Before he knew what was happening, old Mundadji caught him by the neck and killed him. Then he cut him open, right down the middle, took…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3139w to a considerable length and is then made into plaits which are wound round the crown so as to produce the appearance of a close-fitting cap or helmet (Figs. 345, 346). This old man told us how he had graduated in Q 2…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3138wn — that would be found out later on. All sacred ceremonies were suspended, and the whole camp entered with zest into the very serious business of performing properly the various mourning ceremonies. The etiquette of m…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3137molished and shifted across the creek, the only trace left in the morning being a small low mound of earth, called Kakiti, piled on the actual spot on which the man had died ; and around this the ground was carefully sm…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3136ed again by an older man (Fig. 295). This little ceremony has the object of enabling the men, who are thus rubbed with stones representing parts of the kangaroo, to go out into the bush and catch kangaroos more easily t…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3135ON ALONG THE LINE A B. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 indicate waterholes in the rocky bed of the stream which flows down the valley. features in the gorge, the entrance to which is blocked, save for a very narrow passage round…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3134A PLACE CALLED PARAPAKINI (p. 406). Fig. 290. GROUND-DRAWING associated with THE WOLLUNQUA TOTEMIC CEREMONY OF A PLACE CALLED PARAPAKINI (p. 406). Fig. 291. STONE CHURINGA REPRESENTING ONE "I Mil. Y.Wls CARRIED BY THE M…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3133ngai — that is, spots once inhabited by the old ancestors, and now full of spirit children. These old ancestors showed a commendable fondness for walking about in a few picturesque spots that their country contained, an…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3132dually approaching the Murchison Range, and late in the afternoon of the third day skirted its base, and, following up a valley leading into the hills, camped, just after sunset, by the side of a picturesque waterhole c…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3131g pace with us on foot, the old men were continually talking about the natural features associated in their traditions with various totemic ancestors, and pointing out to us every feature that interested them. On the se…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3130nt Creek by the ancestor of the black-snake totem, carrying their yams with them. These were Churinga, and they deposited them (Fig. 291) along with the spirits associated with them, at various places as they travelled…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3129white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white-ant eggs, thrown down here by some women called Munga-Munga who belonged to the yam totem. They were sent away to the east from a place close to Tennant Creek by t…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3128e of any kind was associated with some tradition of their past. A range five miles away from Tennant Creek had arisen to mark the path traversed by the great ancestor of the Pittongu (bat) totem. Several miles further o…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3127with ant, lizard, fire, and wild-cat totems. When they did begin again they were in one respect quite different from the previous ceremonies. On each of eight successive days a special drawing was made upon the ground,…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3126sand with a boomerang. The performer is following tin- track. xvii THE GREAT WOLLUNQUA 399 Thapauerlu, a rocky waterhole in the Murchison Range. Stretching itself out as far as it could, whilst its tail remained in the…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3125; but, in the Warramunga, the one great ancestor was provided with a large number of small spirits which he carried about with him and deposited when he came to suitable places. Some striking natural feature, easily see…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3124s, march- ing about together, as we meet with in the Arunta tales, according to the Warramunga tribe there was usually only one individual. In the Arunta some of the ancestors went down into the ground, that is died and…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3123visible to-day. They were half-animals or half-plants, as the case may be, only, instead of a lot of kangaroos, or emus, or snakes, march- ing about together, as we meet with in the Arunta tales, according to the Warram…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3122ring a word. The ban of silence does not, unfortunately, preclude a woman from wailing, and night after night we used to hear the weird wailing for the dead. The spirit of a dead person is supposed to haunt the old camp…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3121old woman who, from choice, had not spoken a word for twenty-five years (Fig. 204). She was very ancient and decrepit when we saw her, and before this she has probably gone to her grave without uttering a word. The ban…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3120perhaps two hundred feet (Fig. 205). The column was so high that we could always see it a long way off. If it came in the direction of the camp there was a great commotion, the natives, especially the women and children…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3119t, because the illness, or death, of every indi- vidual is attributed to the evil magic of some one else, who in the end may pay for his reputation with his life. In the Arunta tribe the spirits are supposed to use a sp…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3118ng his enemy on sight, and, though a man is not at all averse to having the reputation of being strong in magic, still there is always a certain amount of risk attached to it, because the illness, or death, of every ind…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3117awe- inspiring about the Churinga, but to the savage youth, who has been taught to believe implicitly in what the old men tell him, it is quite a different matter ; and, in fear and trembling, he takes them in his hands…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3116ers which are all the more attractive to him because all knowledge of them is so jealously guarded by the older men. Up to the time of initiation the Arunta boy is taught to believe that the strange noise which warns hi…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3115eceived a call to the medical profession, he betakes himself to some secluded spot, known to be frequented by one of these special spirit individuals ; or perhaps, without intending to do so, he may come across one in s…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3114to the savage. It was only after considerable persuasion that the old man had consented to show us how the poison stick was used. Fig. 171. YOUNG MAN OF THE UNMATJERA TRIBE, FULL FACE. Fig. 172. MAN OF THE UNMATJERA TRI…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3113lked away to the spot 3 and looked back and said, " I can see the water, it is close up yet ; " then he walked on to 4, 5, and 6, each square indicating a resting-place, at which he made the same remark. At 7 he said, "…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3112to which two eagle-hawk men, or men-birds, lived there in the Alcheringa with a lot of young eagle-hawks. They fed on wallabies, and one day one of the men choked himself with a bone which stuck crossways in his throat…
- spirit in Across Australia, volume 2#3111(Fig. 147). This little ceremonyis called "ulquita atuma" ("ulquita" a shield, and " atuma " to strike) and, during its performance, silence was maintained and every one looked very solemn. If the blow results in a firm…