The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) / The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

by James George Frazer

Footnote 137:[ (return) ]

Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 228 sq.

Footnote 138:[ (return) ]

Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 229 sq.

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Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. pp. 230 sq.

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Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 231-238.

Footnote 141:[ (return) ]

Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. p. 238.

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Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. pp. 238 sq.

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Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 239-247.

Footnote 144:[ (return) ]

Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. p. 248.

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"On the other hand there is a great difference between the Wollunqua and any other totem, inasmuch as the particular animal is purely mythical, and except for the one great progenitor of the totemic group, is not supposed to exist at the present day" (Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 248).

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The wingara is the equivalent of the Arunta alcheringa, that is, the earliest legendary or mythical times of which the natives profess to have knowledge.