{"collection":"Sacred Texts - Australia","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_aus_ntca_ntca09_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_aus_ntca_ntca09_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_aus_ntca_ntca09_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aus/ntca/ntca09.htm","summary":"The Native Tribes of North Central Australia, by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen [1899]\nAll Australian natives, with rare exceptions, have to pass through some initiation ceremony before being admitted to the secrets of the tribe\u2014Enumeration of ceremonies amongst the Arunta and Ilpirra tribes\u2014Absence of the knocking out of teeth as an initiation rite\u2014Ceremonies amongst natives of Finke River\u2014First ceremony\u2014Throwing the boy up in the air\u2014The second ceremony\u2014Circumcision or Lartna\u2014The Apulla\u2026","tags":["Baldwin Spencer","Central Australian Aborigines","Dreamtime Rock Art","Totemism"],"text":null,"title":"The Native Tribes of North Central Australia: Chapter VII. Initiation Ceremonies","tradition":"Sacred Texts - Australia","translated_text":null,"word_count":20585}