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An account of the Engwurra or Fire Ceremony of certain central Australian tribes

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria10 (1)Published In 1897 • Pages: 17-28

By: Spencer, Baldwin, Gillen, Francis James.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The data excerpted fro this article describes a Fire Ceremony.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Organized ceremonial
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Aranda
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1996
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Oceania
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Australia
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
article
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Government Official
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
William P. Mangin ; 1950-1956
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
not specified
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Australia
NotesAdditional notes
Baldwin Spencer and Francis James Gillen
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
17028024
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Aranda (Australian people)