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Definition of Churingas
1. churinga [n] - See also: churinga
Lexicographical Neighbors of Churingas
Literary usage of Churingas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1908)
"I secured a fine collection of sacred wooden slabs or churingas, ... Amongst the
Niol Niol every man has two churingas, a large one and a small one, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"churingas of boomerang-shape are altogether exceptional. I So Aranda is the German
of the English Arunta. 198 Indo-Germanic, here and elsewhere, ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... objects being their totems) kept their souls (like the giant of the fairy
tale) in stone churingas, which they hung on poles when they went out hunting. ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, Bonnell Thornton (1905)
"... a criticism of the so-called "idols," "totems," "churingas," etc., recently
found in the Clyde valley which are still the subject of acute controversy. ..."
5. Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University by Robert Ranulph Marett, Arthur Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Frank Byron Jevons, John Linton Myres, William Warde Fowler (1908)
"... has called attention to the parallel presented by the Australian deposits of
pebbles called churingas, connected with the departed spirits of a tribe, ..."
6. The Manor and Manorial Records by Nathaniel J. Hone (1906)
"Then follows a criticism of the so-called "idols," "totems," "churingas"
etc., recently found in the Clyde valley, which are still the subject of acute ..."
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