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INDEX
151

Euloowayi—devils who live where the sun sets, 136.

Bootha's witch-poles, 47.

Evolution —

Age of— Arunta and Euahlayi myths, xvii, 2, 6.

Heredity, version of, 22.

Extinct animals—legends concerning bones at Guddee, 102.

Eyesight of blacks, 112.


Female descent among the Euahlayi, 10, 12, 13.

Fights—

Celtic characteristics of the blacks, 133.

Sham fights, 68, 69, 128.

Fire-making, 61.

Fish—representation of Minggah inside, alleged, 116.

Fishing and fish- traps, 109, 110, 117.

Byamee's fish-trap, 8, 102.

Fishing festival—Byamee's rules as to a common camping-ground, etc., 8.

Food, 116, 117.

Delicacies for camp epicures, 110.

Taboo—ceremonies on removal of wunnarl, etc., 23, 24, 81.

Frazer, Mr. J. G., xii, xiv, xv, xviii, xxii, xxiii, xxv.

Funeral customs and mourning, 38, 88,90.

Description of a funeral, 83-89.

Variations in funeral rites, 92, 93.


Game

Portions allotted to each person — strictness of rules, 117.

Trapping and cooking, 105-109, 116.

Games, 127-129.

Gayandi or Boorah spirit, voice of, 62, 63, 64, 66, 72, 74, 81.

Made by Byamee, 67.

Nahgul—rejected Gayandi, 67, 137.

Tree from which Byamee cut the first Gayandi, 101.

Generosity, inculcation of, 52.

Goohnai or dirge, 85.

Goomarh—spirit-stone belonging to a wizard, 22, 27.

Bahloo's Goomarh—spirits of baby-girls launched into space, 50.

Place of refuge, 36.

Gooweera, poison-sticks or bones, 3133.

Gooyeanawannah—messengers summoning tribes to attend the Boorah, 63.

Gouyou (bandicoot) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 17.

Gowargay, featherless emu—legend, 97, 137.

Graves, marking of, 94.

Grinding-stones, 117, 119.

Grudge, cherishing from generation to generation, 134.

Gubberah—sacred stone, 26.

Boorah ceremonies, 74.

Guddeegooree—small poison-sticks or bones, 31.

Gullendoorie—drink made with honey, 119.

Gurraymi—woman's name for the Boorah spirit, 62.

Gwaibooyanbooyan—hairless red devil of the scrubs, 135.

Gwaigulleeah—phratry name of Euahlayi, 11.

Gwaimudthen—phratry name of Euahlayi, 11.


Hair, lock of—hate token, method of making poison-stick effective, 32, 33.

Hands of blacks small and well-shaped, 41.

Harvest and harvest home, 118.

Heat apoplexy, legend, 138.

Heaven, xxvi, 90, 134.

Henderson, Mr., 6.

Heredity, theory of, 22.

Honesty and kindness, inculcation of, 54.

Honey-finding, 114.

Howitt, Mr., ix, xiv, 1, 2, 6, 9, 10.

Huxley, Mr., 5.


Iguanas—burrowing, warning of spring, 110.

Individuality of blacks, 1 12.

Initiation ceremonies—

Boorah, see that title. Girl, 56-58.

Innerah, native name for Mrs. Parker, 88.

Insomnia, remedies for, 38, 53.

Intellectual ability of the blacks, question of, 11.


Kaitish

Marriage rules, xxii. Religious ideas—Atnatu belief, xvii, xviii.