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"Man to
man fights they would have with yam sticks. They'd take it in turns
to hit each other over the head…They must have suffered a tremendous
headache afterwards. The…(urngi) would go there and fix them up. They'd
use a lot of emu fat in those days or carpet snake fat for ointment…
You couldn't hit the other person across the midriff or body or leg,
it was cowardly to do that, you'd probably get killed. You'd have
to lay down and say, I've had enough." (Gordon Coulthard, Port Augusta,
1984 in Education Dept. SA, 1992; p69) |
Another form
of punishment was to keep a person in a smoky place and leave them
there until they choked. Usually the lawbreaker was made a social
outcast.For example if a man married a woman who was not of the
accepted moiety then she and her children were would be treated
like outcasts.
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