Monumbo

The Monumbo are a strongly-built people, of the average European height, with what is described as a remarkably Semitic type of features.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

The Monumbo are a Papuan tribe numbering about four hundred souls, who inhabit twelve small villages close to the seashore.

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In disposition the Monumbo are cheerful and contented, proud of themselves and their country; they think they are the cleverest and most fortunate people on earth, and look down with pity and contempt on Europeans.

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That, apparently, is the whole religion of the Monumbo.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Leaving Potsdam Harbour and the Monumbo, and moving still eastward along the coast of German New Guinea, we come to a large indentation known as

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Guinea we come to Monumbo or Potsdam Harbour, situated about the 145th degree of East Longitude.

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The Monumbo of Potsdam Harbour, 227 _sq. _; their beliefs concerning the spirits of the dead, 228 _sq. _; their fear of ghosts, 229; their treatment of manslayers, 229 _sq.

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"The Monumbo are acquainted with no Supreme Being, no moral good or evil, no rewards, no place of punishment or joy after death, no permanent immortality ....

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897