Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III INITIATION CEREMONIES Division of tribes into three groups according to the nature of the initiation ceremony. Group i, tribes with neither circumcision nor subincision. Group 2, tribes with circumcision only. Group 3, tribes with circumcision and subincision.?List of the tribes.?Initiation on Melville Island.? Yam ceremony.?Status terms of youths and girls taking part.?Preparing the ceremonial ground.?Making a special fire to roast the yams.?Performance of ceremonies and painting of the performers.?Ducking the initiate in a water pool.?Pulling out of hair.?Special decorations worn by boys and girls passing through the ceremony and by the mother of the boy.?Port Essington tribe.?First ceremony or Nailpur; second ceremony or Wokunjari.?Kakadu tribe.?First ceremony or Jamba.?Showing the initiate the Jamba.? Food restrictions.?Kangaroo ceremony.?Putting belts and armlets on the initiate.?Removing food restrictions.?Second ceremony or Ober.?Youths sent out to distant camps to invite strangers.?Special Tjaina ground.?Kangaroo and Snake ceremonies.?Third ceremony or Juiigoan.?Fourth ceremony or Kulori, associated with a yam.?"Singing" different articles of food and so removing the restrictions.? Fifth ceremony or Muraian.?Performance of ceremonies.? Sacred objects associated with the Muraian.?Larakia tribe.? Belier ceremony.?Showing the Bidu-bidu or bull-roarer.? Mullinyu ceremony.?Worgait tribe.?Kundein ceremony.? Circumcision.?Baquett ceremony.?Showing the bull- roarer.?Djauan tribe.?Mindirinni ceremony.?Circumcision.?Showing the Kunapippi or bull-roarer.?Mungai ceremony.?Mungarai tribe.?Kalal camp and showing sacredceremonies and the Kunapippi or bull-roarer.?Circumcision.?Wandella status.?Subincision.?Nadiriga status.? Smoking the nadiriga.?Nullalcun tribe.?Kokulla...