NATIVE RITES.
WITNESSED BY WHITE WOMAN. LONDON, ALiy 9. A Sydney undergraduate, Aliss Phyllis Kaberry, who was born in America, has come to London, says the * ‘NewsChronicle” after spending 18 months in the Australian bush, where, she says, sbo witnessed natives’ secret ceremonies. Aliss Ka berry says the men’s corroborees are more elaborate than the women’s but the latter are much more secret, involving spells and songs unknown to male aborigines. The visitor, who, apparently, has studied totemism and bone-pointing, and native mythology, hopes to qualify for the Doctorate of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19380527.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 192, 27 May 1938, Page 3
Word Count
97NATIVE RITES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 192, 27 May 1938, Page 3
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in