Volume 1

Wanderings in wild Australia / by Sir Baldwin Spencer.

  • Walter Baldwin Spencer
Date:
1928
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Wanderings in wild Australia / by Sir Baldwin Spencer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS Book I LARAPINTA LAND Part I THE COUNTRY CHAPTER PAGE I. Through Larapinta Land. i. The Lower Steppe Lands 3 II. Through Larapinta Land. 2. The Higher Steppe Lands ...... 62 III. The Macdonnell Ranges .... 108 IV. After “The Wet”.130 V. The Desert Land of Lake Amadeus . .156 Part II THE NATIVES VI. The Arunta Native : His Personal Appear¬ ance and Character . . . .184 VII. The Arunta Native : His Belongings and Manner of Life ..... 205 VIII. How the Arunta People are Organised . 224 IX. CORROBBOREES AND VlSITING CEREMONIES . 23O X. Magic and Medicine Men .... 246 XI. Alchera Beliefs and the Cult of the Churinga . . . . • .272 XII. The Engwura Ceremony .... 308
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