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Such an ancestral image is called a _korwar_ or _karwar_.
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
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Thus, off the western extremity of New Guinea there is a group of small islands (Waaigeoo, Salawati, Misol, Waigama, and so on), the inhabitants of which make _karwar_ or wooden images of their dead ancestors.
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
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_Korwar_, or _karwar_, wooden images of the dead, 307 _sqq.
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
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Images of the dead, wooden (_korwar_ or _karwar_), 307 _sqq.
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
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And yet these same Papuas, if they want to know whether what they are going to undertake is right or wrong, squat before their karwar, clasp the hands over the forehead, and bow repeatedly, at the same time stating their intentions.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Here we have but to translate what they in their helpless language call 'nervous feeling' by our word 'conscience,' and we shall not only understand what they really mean, but confess, perhaps, that it would be well for us if in our own hearts the karwar occupied the same prominent place which it occupies in the cottage of every Papua.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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The karwar silently pushed him aside, and they went back to listening in on the exchange.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"The maharani sent me to the airport to bring you straight to the Vengai Ponni Amman temple," said the karwar.
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Whatever you may say, you are a member of the royalty, and I am a mere karwar, a clerk, forever loyal to you.
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There seems to be something going on between him and this girl… the driver whispered softly to the karwar.
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