- a variation of Aranda.
Arunta
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The frigate Arunta passed through the South China Sea with an Australian navy supply ship two weeks ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2015
Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver.
From Time Magazine Archive
He perforated some which could not be worn as ornaments, just as the Arunta do.
From The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore by Lang, Andrew
People who, like the Arunta, have lost memory of the very names of the phratries, cannot conceivably remember the nature of the origin of exogamy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Among the best observers of the Arunta tribes, for instance, some hold that they have no conception of God, others that they are constantly thinking about God.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert
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