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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 1213 — Chapter IV · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued III.—Representative or Commemorative Rites

Joseph Ward Swain translation

See Strehlow, III, p, 8. Among the Arunta there is also a totem Worra which greatly resembles the "laughing boy" totem of Warramunga (ibid., and III, p. 124). Worra means young men. The object of the ceremony is to make the young men take more pleasure in the game labara (for this game, see Strehlow, I, p. 55, n. 1).

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