Abstract
THE Arunta of Central Australia have loomed large of late in ethnological controversy, but we are destined to hear further discussion in the near future. Hitherto our information has been derived first from the observations of Mr. F. J. Gilten in part iv. of “The Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia,” 1896, and later from the two. well-known admirable books by Prof. Baldwin Spencer and Mr. Gillen. In a recent number of Globus (Bd.. xci., No. 18, p. 285) Herr M. Freiherr v. Leonhardi has an article “On some Religious and Totemic Cnceptions of the. Aranda and Loritja in Central Australia,” based upon information received from Herr C. Strehlow and Herr Reuther, of the Neuen Dettelsaur Mission, who have a mastery over the language of the Arunta, ot Arandas Some of the information thus obtained is so different from that recorded by Spencer and Gillen that it opens a new phase in the discussion's concerning these remarkable people. Only the more salient points of Leonhardi's article can be here given; students will have to study it in detail, and they will await with eagerness the promised volume.
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H., A. New Facts about the Arunta . Nature 77, 44–45 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077044a0
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