Arunta
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Aruntas,
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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
Have the Arunta people had imposed upon them a social system which has not destroyed their primitive totemic cult?
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
The Australian Arunta have a rain clan whose function is to bring the desired supply by nonsacred dancing festivals and sacred ceremonies.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
Among the Arunta people, on the contrary, the totem belief and custom are contained within a social system of extraordinary dimensions and proportions.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
For a like reason perhaps the name of the dead must among the Aruntas not be uttered, nor the grave approached, by certain classes of kinsmen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Still, even allowing for this, it remains true that for a friendly ghost the proper place is the grave and not the homes of the living, and accordingly the Aruntas with cries of Wah!
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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