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The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study

Note 301 — Chapter IV · [89] SEXUAL ASPECT OF MARRIAGE

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See Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., p. 133, where this is explicitly mentioned. The names of both ceremonies in the Arunta seem to indicate this analogy; atna—ariltha—kuma and pura—ariltha—kuma (for their meaning see the place just quoted).

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