The Euahlayi Tribe/Index

by K. Langloh Parker

INDEX

After Death—Passage of spirit to Byamee's sky-camp, or to a place of pain, xxvi, 90.

Alcheringa—mythic age of primal evolution, xvii.

All Father belief, see titles Byamee and Religious ideas.

Amusements of blacks, 127-133.

Ancestral spirits, domination of, among northern tribes, xvii.

Art, patrons of—-legend of Goolahwilleel, 131, 132.

Arunta—

Children, production of—philosophy of reincarnation, xviii.

Evolution, theory of, xv, xvii.

Haunted sacred stones, xx, xxi, xxv.

Inheritance, right of, reckoned in male line except in regard to totems, xiv.

Irreligion—no trace of 'All Father' belief, xiv, xv, xvi, xxv.

Magic, xiv, xv.

Marriage rules, xiii, xxi.

Rites and ceremonies—more advanced than Euahlayi, prolonged rites, circumcision, etc., xiii. Totem, derivation from locality, xix-xxi.

Atnatu belief of the Kaitish, xvii, xviii.

Babies, see Children.

Baby betrothal, 55.

Bachelors' camp, 61.

Baggage, carrying of, while on the march, 59.

Bahloo—

Boy manufacture, assistance in, 61.

Eclipse, explanation of, 98.

Girl babies, manufacture of, 50.

Halo, 98.

Various customs to ensure favourable patronage of children, 52, 53.

Baiame, see Byamee.

Baillahburrah, 66.

Barley grass or Yarmmara, harvesting, 118.

Bathing, 125.

Beemunny, death of—description of funeral, etc, 83-89.

Bees in Paradise, 114.

Beewee totem (brown and ye11ow iguana), with list of multiplex totems, 16, 17.

Belah, forests of—haunted, 140.

Betrothals—baby betrothal, 55.

Birds—

Babies—protection against certain birds flying over camp, 53.

Killing and trapping, 105, 106, 109.

Men of the past, birds embodying spirits of, 140.

Birrahgnooloo, wife of Byamee, 7, 78, 102.

Patroness of water, 103.

Birrahmulgerhyerh, poison-stick distributing devils, 136.

Birth customs, 39, 40, 52.

Bogies of the bush, 135-139.

Bohrah (kangaroo) totem, 15, 82.

Boodther, meeting for receiving and giving presents, 81.

Boogahroo, lock of hair method of making a goowera effective, 32, 81.

Boogoodoogahdah, legend of a cannibal woman with hundreds of dogs, 101.

Boolees or whirlwinds, 83, 84, 138.

Boomerang, 123.

Boomerang-throwing, 127.

Boondoorr or dillee bag of a wirreenun—contents, 36, 37.

Boorah—manhood, initiation ceremonies—

Ceremonies of the Boorah meeting, etc., 70-78, 79-81.

Concealed from women, 59.

Curiosity prohibited—fate of two boys who looked up, 65, 71, 72, 73.

Gayandi, or Boorah spirit, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 72.

Gradual initiation at successive Boorahs, 78, 79, 81.

Preliminaries—summoning of neighbouring tribes, preparations, etc., 62-69.

Presents presented to women relations of boys who had been initiated, 59.

Bootha, witch woman, 8, 42-49, 85.

Bower-bird's playground, 26.

Boyjerh, name for Byamee used by women and uninitiated, 4.

Boys—

Initiation ceremonies, see Boorah. Manufacture of, by the wood lizard, etc., 61. Training of a boy up to Boorah preliminaries, 61.

Bralgah (native companion), extinct totem, 19.

Bridal bouquets, origin of, 57.

Buckandee (native cat) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 19.

Bullimah—Byamee's sky-camp, 91.

Bull-roarer, see Gayandi.

Bunbul—little Boorah ring, 64.

Burrahwahn (sandhill rat) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 19.

Bush walks with gins and piccaninnies, 113.

Bushmen and trackers, blacks as, 112.

Byamee or Baiame, 'The All Father,' xxvi, 2.

Boorah instituted by, see Boorah.

Boyjerh—name used by women and uninitiated, 4.

Byamee was to the Euahlayi what Alcheringa was to the Arunta, 6.

Concealment of belief from women and uninitiated, 6.

Fish-trap made by, alleged, 8, 102.

Fishing festival rules, 8.

Languages in which the name occurred, 4.

Manna, provision of, when drought threatened, 114.

Meaning and derivation of name, 4.

Origin of—

Missionary importation of Byamee, question of, 5. Not derived from European influence nor developed from ancestor-worship—Mr. Howitt's evidence, 6.

Prayers to Byamee, 8, 9, 79.

Totems, source of—totem name for each part of his body, etc., 7.

Traces of—-stone imprints, etc., 102.

Wives of Byamee, 7, 78, 103.

Byamee's sky-camp, passage of the spirit after death, 90.

Byamee's song, 6, 79, 80.

Camp taboo, marking of, 94.

Cannibalism, 38, 73.

Legend of Boogoodoogahdah, 10.

Canopus, legend of, 96.

Canton, Mr., 21.

Castor and Pollux—legend, 96.

Caves at Eurahbah—Birrahgnooloo's springs, 103.

Children—

Bogy dreaded by, 137.

Divorce—custody of children, 58.

Production of—

Arunta philosophy of reincarnation of ancestral spirits, xviii.

Euahlayi beliefs—

Incarnation of freshly created beings, etc., 50-52. Manufacture and distribution of babies, xxiv, 50, 61.

Spirits visible to babies, 46.

Various customs to ensure good health, physique, and a desirable character, 52-55.

Churinga nanja belief, xx, xxv.

Circumcision, xiii, xvii.

Civilisation of Australian tribes—probably most backward of mankind, xi.

Climatic causes not the only factors in social and religious progress—Arunta and northern coastal tribes compared with south-eastern tribes, xv-xvii.

Clouds, etc., totems claiming, 16, 82.

Clouds of Magellan, legend, 97.

Clubs used in war, 124.

Coastal conditions—heavier rainfall, etc., causing social and religious progress, alleged; central and northern coastal tribes not credited with All Father belief, xv, xvi.

Coffin, making of, 85.

Collarene, drink made of, 119.

Comets, mythical reasons for, 99.

Cookeran Lake—haunted, 139.

Cooking, methods of, 116, 117.

Cooks—objection to women cooks, 111.

Coolabah trees, babies incarnated from, in some cases, 50, 51, 52.

Corroboree, or opera, 81, 122, 130.

Method of production, etc., 132.

Cowards and incapables, disposal of, 73.

Crow—girl babies, assistance in manufacture, 50.

Crying children—smoke remedy, 53.

Crystal-gazing, 26, 36.

Cunnumbeillee, wife of Byamee, 7.

Cures—

Bootha's wondrous cures, 44-46.

Conjuring cures, 27.

Natural remedies, 37.

Noises to frighten sickness away, 40

Yunbeai cure, 29, 34.

Curiosity prohibited at the Boorah—fate of two boys who looked up, 65, 71, 72. 73.

Dahn—hole occupied by Bahloo's spirit-stone, 50.

Dancing, 122, 130.

Darramulun, 4, 9.

Dayoorl-stones, 117, 119.

Dead—

Guarding from spirits, 85, 135. Keeping a dead body for a considerable time, reasons for, 91.

Passage of the spirit to Byamee's sky-camp or to a place of pain, xxvi, 90.

Possessions, disposal of, 94.

Prayers for the dead, 8.

Spirits of—Bootha's precautions, 48.

Taboo extended to possessions, case of, 94.

Death—

Meteors and falling stars signs of, 91,99.

Signs of approach, 83.

Warning of—Bootha's witch-pole, 47, 49.

Woman's fault that death came into the world, 97, 98.

Death-dealing stone, 36.

Descent—

Female descent—Euahlayi custom, 10, 12.

Paternal descent not necessarily a sign of advance alleged, xii, xiii, xiv.

Totem system, see that title.

Devil's bread, 140.

Dhé, see Totem system.

Dheal—tree sacred to the dead, 32.

Diamonds—talk of marvellous stones among the blacks, 101.

Dibbee (sandpiper), extinct kin, 19.

Dieri tribe, 10.

Dilbi and Kupathin—phratry names of Kamilaroi tribe, 12.

Dillalee, 66.

Dillee bag—contents, 36, 37.

Dillee—stone used for crystal-gazing, 36.

Dinewan (emu) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 15.

Disinfection by smoking, 41, 88, 89.

District occupied by the Euahlayi—North-Western New South Wales, 1.

Divorce, 58.

Dogs, spirits visible to, 46.

Doolooboorah—message-stick, 63.

Doolungaiyah (bilber) totem, with multiplex totems, 17.

Doowee—dream spirit of an ordinary person, 27-29.

Dorrunmai, a chief, 81.

Douyou (black snake) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 18.

Dream spirits, 27-29.

Dreams—totem seen in a dream, warning of coming evil, 28, 83.

Dress and decoration—

Boorah ceremonies, 64, 65, 70, 77.

Cuts on the body—tribal and mourning marks, etc., 125.

Initiation ceremonies—girl, 57.

King's modern full dress, 120.

Ordinary dress, and dress for state occasions, 2, 120.

Drink, prohibition of, to any person embodying many spirits, 46.

Drinks—collarene, etc, 119.

Ducks—trapping and cooking, 106, 116.

Durrawunga—little Boorah, 70, 75.

Durrooee—sacred bird in whose shape spirits of dead women revisited the earth, 85.

Dying out of the blacks—prophetic vision of oldest wirreenuns, 76.

Eclipses, various accounts of, 98.

Eleanbah Wundah, lower world—penalty for the three unforgivable sins, 78.

Employment of Euahlayi—all, except old men, employed by white settlers, 3.

Emu trapping and cooking, 107, 108, 116.

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. Totem, derivation from locality, xviii-xxi.

Kamilaroi, 2, 4, 10, 12.

Kindness—

Inculcation of kindness, 54.

Remembered by the blacks, 134.

Kissing—white foolishness, 126.

Knives, 124.

Kumbuy, spirit women presenting presents to women relations of boys initiated at the Boorah, 59.

Kupathin and Dilbi, phratry names of Kamilaroi tribe, 12.

Kurnai, 10.

Kurreah, crocodile, 95.

Lang, Mr., 5.

Introduction by, ix-xxvii.

Language, 3, 134.

Allied with Kamilaroi and Wirádjuri dialects, 2.

Laughing star, 95.

Lower world, xxvi, 78.

Lunatics, persons spirit possessed, 43.

Magic—

Rainmaking magic, xv, xvi, 47, 48, 49.

Showers of pebbles produced by wirreenuns, 35.

Totemic magic, xiv, xvi.

Mah, see Totem system.

Maira (paddy melon) totem, 18, 82.

Manhood, initiation ceremonies, see Boorah.

Manna, provision of, in view of drought, 114.

Marahgoo, man-shaped devils with red rugs and a deadly draught, 135.

Marriage and marriage laws—

Age of women, no disqualification, 56.

Claiming of husband by wirreebeenun, 58.

Divorce, 58.

Henpecked black husbands, 58.

Meetings for arrangement of, etc., 81.

Local source of totems among Arunta and Kaitish, effect of, etc., xxi, xxii.

Matrimonial classes —

Number, names, etc.,xiii, 1, 12, 22. Totem kins which always belonged to the same matrimonial classes, 20.

Number of wives—custom, etc., 55. Phratry divisions and—meaning of names, etc, xi, xxvi, 11, 22.

Pirraam or Piraungara, custom of, xi.

Qualification for—possession of Boorah stones, 81.

Social advance, question of, xiii.

Stealing a woman within forbidden degrees—procedure, 78, 79.

Wedding presents, 58.

Young girl marrying a man with an old wife—Duenna attitude of old wife, 55.

Yunbeai, no marriage restrictions, 21.

Matah, 42, 44, 48, 49, 65.

Mathews's, Rev. Mr., origin of phratries theory, xxvi.

Mayrah, legend of an invisible tribe, 99.

Medicine men, see Wirreenuns.

Meetings other than the Boorah meeting, 81.

Message-stick, 63.

Messengers summoning neighbouring tribes to attend the Boorah, 63, 64.

Meteors, sign of death, 91, 99.

Milky Way legend, 95.

Minggah or spirit—haunted tree of an individual, 21, 22.

Injury or loss of, resulted in evil to possessor, 36.

Places of refuge, 36.

Selection of a Minggah, 29.

Spirits of various kinds secreted in, 29.

Missionaries—

Failure, possible causes of, 141, 142.

Influence on the Euahlayi, question of, 2, 5.

Mistletoe branches—legend of disappointed babies wailing for mothers, 51.

Mitchell, Sir Thomas, 5, 31.

Moodai (opossum) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 18.

Moon, see Bahloo.

Moonaibaraban, 59.

Mooroobeaigunnil, spirits aiding journey to Byamee's sky-camp, 90.

Morality—

Different codes for men and women, 58.

Unchaste women, punishment of, 59.

Mosquito bird legend, 141.

Moungun, armless women legend, 101.

Mourning and mourning customs—widows' caps, etc., 83, 85, 87, 88, 90, 93.

Mouth of a baby shut when asleep, precautions against disease or evil spirits, 53.

Mullee Mullee, dream-spirit of a wizard, 27, 28.

Mulloowil, shadow spirit, 29.

Mullyan (eagle-hawk), 82.

Bones of victims—legends, 102.

Munthdeeguns, men in charge of boys to be initiated at the Boorah, 64, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76.

Murder—

Penalty in the lower world, 78.

Trial of accused, 92.

Muscular exhibition, 130.

Nahgul, rejected Gayandi, 67, 137.

Names—

Dead—names never mentioned, 27.

Euahlayi—pronunciation and derivation, 1.

List of general names, 14, 15.

Meaning of phratry names, xxvi, 12.

Mother, derived from among the Euahlayi, 12, 13.

Night and day, different names used for a child as a precaution against devils, 13.

Place of birth, current incidents, etc., names derived from, 13.

Relationships—

Common use of names proclaiming degree of relationship, 14.

Divisions of, denoted by names, xi, 11-13.

Needlework, 120.

Nets for fishing and trapping game, etc., 107.

Netted-looking clouds, 99.

Nights in the bush, sadness of, 140.

Nil admirari attitude of a black man, 65.

Nimmaylee, 112, 113.

Noorahgogo beetle, 140.

Northern Crown constellation—legend, 103.

Nose and nose-bonet—

Flatness of nose, method of ensuring, 42.

Passage of arms between gin with nose-bone and white laundress with earrings, 55.

Piercing noses, 54.

Sense of smell lessened by use of nose-bone, 36.

Numbardee, 85.

Numeration, method of, 11.

Oobi Oobi, 90.

Ooghnahbayah—small eagle hawk—method of attack on emu's nest, 113.

Opossum, disappearance of, from district, 115.

Orion, legend, 96.

Phratry divisions and names—meaning of names, etc., xi, xxvi, ii, 12.

Piame, see Byamee.

Piggiebillah, 115, 116.

Pirrauru or Piraunmgaru, custom of, unknown to Euahlayi, xi.

Places of refuge, 36.

Pleiades, legend, 95.

Poison-sticks, bones, etc., 31-33, 40.

Distribution by the Birrahmulgerhyerh, 136.

Prayers of the blacks, 8, 79, 80.

Present giving and receiving—meeting of Boodther, 81.

Promises—a broken promise never forgiven, 133.

Rain and rainmaking—

Dead persons sendmg rain, 90.

Magic, xv, xvi.

Bootha's witch-poles, etc., 8, 47, 48, 49.

Orphan's cry heard by Byamee, alleged, 8.

Too much rain, method of stopping, 8.

Rain-bird, 101.

Reincarnation, doctrine of, among Arunta, Kaitish, Euahlayi, etc., xviii-xx, xxiv, xxv, 2, 51.

Relationship, 12-13, 15.

Religious ideas and practices—

All Father belief—

Euahlayi, see Byamee.

Kaitish—modified belief in the All Father, Atnatu belief, xvii, xviii.

Social advances. See that subheading.

Ancestral spirits, belief in among northern tribes, xvii.

Dispute whether aborigines had anything more than vague beliefs in unattached spirits—theories advanced by various authorities, 1, 5, 6.

Evolution and transmission of beliefs, xxvi.

Mythical beings other than Byamee—no relation of affection between them and mankind, 9.

Sacrifice, no trace of, among Euahlayi, 9.

Sea, influence of could not be cause of germs of religion—coastal tribes of the north not credited with All Father belief, xv.

Social progress not the cause nor the necessary concomitant of advance in religious ideas, xiii-xviii, 9, 10.

Spirits of the dead, destiny of—Euahlayi belief, xxvi, 90.

Riddles, appreciation of, 132.

Ridley's, Rev. Mr., book for Biblical instruction of the Kamilaroi, 4, 5.

Rites and ceremonies—

Arunta more advanced than Euahlayi, circumcision, etc., xiii. See also Names of ceremonies, Boorah, etc.

Sea—influence of coastal conditions in begetting social and religions progress alleged; central and northern coastal tribes not credited with All Father belief, xv, xvi.

Shadow spirits, 29.

Shell secreted in a tree, 101.

Shields, 124.

Sick nurse—armlet, etc., worn if patient dies, 40.

Sick persons, cure of, see Cures.

Sins—three unforgivable sins, penalty in the lower world, etc., 78.

Skins of blacks—smearing with fat of fish or game, 110.

Smallpox, ghastly traditions of, 39.

Smell of strangers, objections to, precautions, etc., 37, 126.

Snakes of Bahloo, 50.

Social advance—

Marriage rules—ascending grades, phratry and further sub-divisions, xi, xiii.

Religious ideas, social progress not the cause nor necessary concomitant of advance in, xiii-xviii, 9, 10.

Social organisation of the Euahlayi —

Summary, 22.

See also Totem system, Marriage rules, etc.

Southern Cross, legend, 97.

Southern Crown—Mullyan, the eaglehawk, among Euahlayi, 97.

Spears, 123.

Spencer and Gillen, Messrs., ix, xiii, xvi, l0

Spencer, Mr. H., x, 3, 5.

Spirits—

Destiny of spirits of the dead—Euahlayi beliefs, xxvi, 90.

Meetings attended by spirits of the dead, 35.

Number of spirits of which each person was possessed, 35.

One person might embody many spirits—caution against drink, 46.

Visible to others besides wirreenuns, 46.

See also Names of spirits.

Spring, legend, 100.

Springs—spirit-excavated springs of water, 103.

Stars, legends concerning, 95-98, 103.

Swans—Enchanted swans, 140.

Swimming—custom supposed to ensure each child being a good swimmer, 54.

Ta-Ta-thi tribe, 10.

Teeth—

Children born with, no earthly father alleged, 51.

Deterioration of, among younger generation of blacks, 125.

Front tooth knocked out—Boorah ceremony, 74, 75.

Theddora tribe, 4.

Thomas, Mr. N. W., 5, 6, 24.

Tomahawks, 124.

Totem seen in a dream, warning of coming evil, 28, 83.

Totem system—

Definition of 'totem,' xii.

Eating or using of totems allowed among Euahlayi—quarrels caused by speaking evil of or mimicking a totem, 20.

Hereditary and individual totem, differences, 21.

Hereditary and local totemism, theories as to which was the earlier usage, xxi-xxvi.

List of names of Euahlayi totems, with their multiplex totems, 15-20.

Locality, derivation of totem from among Arunta and Kaitish, xviii-xxi.

Numerically strongest totem kins among Euahlayi, 20.

Paternal descent of totem, step in social progress—Mr. Frazer's theory that it might or might not be so, xii, xiv.

Sub-totems, development of, among the Euahlayi, 2.

Winds and clouds controlled by certain totems, 82, 100.

Yunbeai, see that title.

Totem wizard-stick guarding front of camps, 49.

Trackers, blacks as, 112.

Trees—

Legends concerning particular trees, 101, 102.

Spirit-haunted trees, xxvi, 2, 21, 22, 100.

Spring, legend, 100.

Trial by which those guilty of unforgivable sins could escape penalty, 79, 92.

Tribal marks, cutting on children, etc., 54, 125.

Boorah initiation, 73.

Twins, mother of, an object of scorn, etc., 51, 52, 53.

Tylor, Mr., 5.

Unchaste women, punishment of, 59.

Urabunna, xxiv, xxv, 10.

Vendetta, 33.

Vessels for holding water, honey, etc., 125.

Visiting— disinfecting by smoke after visit was over, 41.

Voices of blacks, sweet and soft, 134.

Waddahgudjaelwon, distributor of spirit-babies, 50.

Wahn, the crow—assistance in manufacture of girl babies, 50.

Wailing for the dead, 83, 85.

Waitz, 5.

Wallahgooroonbooan, see Gayandi.

War councils, qualification for attendance, 81.

War weapons, 81, 123.

Warfare and sport, arts of—testing of boys at Boorah ceremonies, 68.

Warangilla, ridges above, haunted by women, 139.

Water—

Patroness of, 103.

Vessels, 125.

Yanta spirits water scheme, 103.

Water-holes said to be haunted, 137.

Weapons, 81, 123.

Weawarra, plain of, haunted, 138.

Wedding presents, 58.

Weedah's playground, 26.

Weedegah Gahreemai, or bachelors' camp, 61.

Weeweemul, 135.

Whirlwinds, 83, 84, 138.

White girls tradition, 139.

Widow with a 'white heart,' 94.

Widows' caps, etc., 93.

Wiimbaio tribe, 9.

Wi-mouyan, or clever stick, for rainmaking, 48.

Winds and wind-making, 82.

Origin of winds—legend of a tribe bursting with rage, 99.

Sex, functions, etc., 100.

Wirádjuri, 2, 4, 5, 9.

Wirreebeeun, woman girl—initiation ceremonies, 56-58.

Wirreenuns, or doctor-wizards of Euahlayi—

Bogahroo wirreenuns, 32, 33.

Conjuring cures, 27.

Evil spirits, getting rid of, by eating their visible form, 138.

Gubberah, or sacred stone, 26.

Magical stones, production of, as a manifestation of power, 35.

Meetings attended by non-professionals and spirits of the dead, 35.

Minggah, see that title.

Natural remedies, 37.

Shadow of a wirreenun taboo—power of wirreenun over ordinary person's shadow, 29.

Swallowing of stones to keep them safe alleged, 80.

Totem wizard-stick guarding front of camps, 49.

Training of a wirreenun, 25-27.

Yunbeai, 29, 30, 33.

Witch woman, Bootha, 42-49.

Woman—

Age, no disqualification for marriage; power gained with increasing age, 56.

Baggage carried by, while on the march, 59.

Boorah ceremonies—

Concealed from women, 59.

Share in Boorah meeting, 62, 65, 70, 75, 76, 77. 78.

Byamee—belief concealed from women, name not used, 4, 6.

Heaven—time occupied in making weapons, 124.

Initiation of a girl into womanhood, 56-58.

Woodcraft, blacks' knowledge of, 113.

Woormerh, boy messengers carrying

Boorah summons, 64.

Wotjobaluk tribe, 10, 24.

Wrestling, 68, 129.

Wundah, or white devil spirits, 29.

Wunnarl, or food taboo—ceremonies on removal of wunnarl, etc, 23, 24, 81.

Wurrawilberoo, 51, 95, 138.

Yanta spirits' water scheme, 103.

Yaraikkana tribe, 24.

Yarmmara, or barley grass, harvest, 118.

Yellen, 84.

Yowee, skeleton spirit, 83.

Yowee, soul equivalent, 35.

Yubbah (carpet snake) totem, 19.

Yudtha Dulleebah, 5, 71.

Yunbeai—

Assuming shape of yunbeai, possessor's power of, 21, 30.

Cases in which yunbeai came out of owners, alleged, 21.

Differences between hereditary totem and individual totem, 21.

Eating of yunbeai prohibited, etc, 21.

Equivalent of Manitu of Red Indians, etc., 24.

Occurrence among Australian tribes, question of 24.

Sick persons, yunbeai cure, 29, 34.

Various properties of yunbeai, 30.

Wirreenuns all possessed of yunbeai, 29.

Yungawee, sacred fire of little Boorah ring, 64.