The Euahlayi Tribe

by K. Langloh Parker

THE

EUAHLAYI TRIBE

A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

BY

K. LANGLOH PARKER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ANDREW LANG

LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE
AND COMPANY, LTD.
1905

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty

CONTENTS

		page
INTRODUCTION,		ix
CHAP. I.	INTRODUCTORY,	1
II.	THE ALL FATHER, BYAMEE,	4
III.	RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS,	11
IV.	THE MEDICINE MEN,	25
V.	MORE ABOUT THE MEDICINE MEN AND LEECHCRAFT,	35
VI.	OUR WITCH WOMAN,	42
VII.	BIRTH—BETROTHAL—AN ABORIGINAL GIRL FROM INFANCY TO WOMANHOOD,	50
VIII.	THE TRAINING OF A BOY UP TO BOORAH PRELIMINARIES,	61
IX.	THE BOORAH AND OTHER MEETINGS,	70
X.	CHIEFLY AS TO FUNERALS AND MOURNING,	83
XI.	SOMETHING ABOUT STARS AND LEGENDS,	95
XII.	THE TRAPPING OF GAME,	105
XIII.	FORAGING AND COOKING,	112
XIV.	COSTUMES AND WEAPONS,	120
XV.	THE AMUSEMENTS OF BLACKS,	127
XVI.	BUSH BOGIES AND FINIS,	135

Chapters (not listed in original)

GLOSSARY
INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

By one of the Euahlayi Tribe

		page
A NATIVE CARRYING A MESSAGE-STICK,		63
TWO NATIVES READY FOR A CORROBOREE,		81
THE FUNERAL OF A NATIVE. A BARK COFFIN,		85
A NATIVE SINGING TO HIS OWN ACCOMPANIMENT, A NATIVE GRINDING GRASS SEED ON A DAYOORL-STONE,	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	117
A NATIVE WITH SHIELD AND WADDY IN FRONT OF HIS CAMP,		121