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At the end of it was a dark piece of wood, shaped much like a large cigar, and decorated with incised concentric circles, stained red. 'Take that and show it to Dr. Fogarty, said Miss Markham, detaching the object from the chain. Merton returned it to her. 'I know where to get a similar churinga, he said. 'Keep your own. Its absence, if asked for, might lead to awkward questions.
I take another example of modern survival in magic. Dr. Munro, perhaps, would think wooden churinga, used for magical ends, "incongruous with the earlier Scottish civilisation." But such objects have not proved to be incongruous with the Scottish civilisation of the nineteenth century.
He was a fair, undecided looking man, with blue wandering eyes, and long untidy, reddish whiskers. He bowed and looked uncomfortable, as well he might. 'I have called to see the Ertwa Oknurcha, Dr. Fogarty, said Merton. 'Oh Lord, said Dr. Fogarty, and murmured, 'Another of his lady friends! adding, 'I must ask, Miss, have you the churinga?
This use of triangular or heart-shaped perforated stones was not inconsistent with the civilisation of the nineteenth century, and, of course, was not inconsistent with the civilisation of the Picts. A stone may have magical purpose, though it bears no markings. Meanwhile most churinga, and many of the disputed objects, have archaic markings, which also occur on rock faces. Dr.
He made a sketch of this object, from memory: if found in Central Australia it would have been reckoned a churinga nanja. I was naturally much interested in my friend's account of objects found in the Clyde estuary, which, as far as his description went, resembled in being archaically decorated the churinga nanja discovered by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen in Central Australia.
If he knew, before any other human being in England, that the Arunta do this very thing to some stone churinga, though seldom to churinga over a foot in length, and if he imitated the Arunta custom, the impostor was a very learned impostor.
They are: but I was speaking of Australian churinga nanja, of stone. "The Clyde amulets are," says Dr. But Dr. Let me put a crucial question. Are the archaic markings on the disputed objects better, or worse, or much on a level with the general run of such undisputably ancient markings on large rocks, cists, and cairns in Scotland? I think the art in both cases is on the same low level.
If ever they come to abandon stone implements, while retaining their magic or religion, they will keep on using their stone churinga nanja. While I was studying these novel Australian facts, in the autumn of 1898, a friend, a distinguished member of Clan Diarmaid, passing by my window, in London, saw me, and came in.
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