kunjirr

/ˈɡunɟir/

gloss “purified”

Ceremony · magic · song

cleansed from a dead person's spirit. To make a person's things unusable again after death, they must be warmed or smoked - passed through smoke or waving smoking bark all around and inside it

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Kuku-Yalanji Dictionary (1982)

The headword and meaning trace to the Kuku-Yalanji dictionary compiled by Henry and Ruth Hershberger with major Kuku Yalanji contributors.

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Major contributors include Toby Bloomfield, Roy Friday, Billy Roberts, Hector and Doris Sykes, Joe Walker, and people who lived at Jajikal in Ayton.

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Ritually cleansed of a dead person's spirit; a deceased's belongings are made usable again by warming/smoking them, per the prose.