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Honey Ant, Camponotus inflatus, yarumpa, yerramp

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Yarumpa A (FJG; 1899) Name of the honey-ant (Camponotus spp.) which gives its name to a totem (1899; 1904). Yerrampe. Honey ant; the sweet nectar found in the swollen abdomen of the honey ant (people suck this out from the ant’s abdomen). This is a complex form composed of yerre, the general term for ants, and -ampe meaning ‘honey, nectar belonging to’ and so literally means ‘the honey/ nectar belonging to the ant’. (Wilkins)

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`Sacred ceremony of the Honey Ant Yarumpa of Ilyaba.'

Northern Territory

Places Ilyaba

Totems Honey Ant, Camponotus inflatus, yarumpa, yerramp

Language Group Arrernte

Institution South Australian Museum

`Arklalillima-Releasing from the Ban of Silence after sacred ceremony of the Honey Ant of Ilyaba.'

Northern Territory

Places Alice Springs; Ilyaba

Totems Honey Ant, Camponotus inflatus, yarumpa, yerramp

Language Group Western Arrernte

Institution South Australian Museum

Intitchiuma ceremony of the Honey Ant Yarumpa.

Totems Honey Ant, Camponotus inflatus, yarumpa, yerramp

Language Group Arrernte

Institution South Australian Museum

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Totem Details

Common Name

Honey Ant

Scientific Name

Camponotus inflatus

Arrernte Name

yarumpa

Unmatjera Name

yerramp

Alternative Spellings

yarumpa