The Astronomy of the Aranda and Luritja Tribes

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May 1932

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Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 56, pp. 19-26

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ethnoastronomy, Archaeoastronomy, Australian Aboriginal Culturea, Aranda, Luritja

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As a special feature of the ethnological make-up of the Australian aborigine, Astronomy does not seem to have claimed its full share of attention, notwithstanding its significance in the study of other peoples. Many legends concerning the heavenly bodies have been handed down or have found their way into popular books of aboriginal myths, but the actual recorded astronomical observations of the aborigine have not been very carefully investigated. During the stay at Hermannsburg, Central Australia, of the 1929 expedition of the Board of Anthropology of the University of Adelaide, the writer made an attempt to acquire as much as possible of the natives' knowledge of stars and star groupings. The following paper is a summary of the information thus secured, the material being obtained from old Aranda and Luritja men.

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