Names; giving names to: people, no. 57, 81; places, no. 4 C, 17, pp. 83 sq., 92, 93, 149 sq., no.

272; dogs, no. 82; pigs, no. 81, p. 341; a bird, p. 227, 228; different kinds of yam, no. 44 B; various things, 3 A; the names of certain ceremonies are kept secret from the women, p. 351, no. 281, 282; the name of a house, no, 43 C. Magic power of names, see Magic. Oil; making oil from coconuts, no. 4 A, B, D.

People; the origin of the first men, no. 1, 9, 14, 15, 16, 36 F, 121, 130, p. 343; the Híamu

people of Dáru, p. 87, no. 287 B, C, 296, 349; in former times people were much superior to the present generation, p. 92; the lives of people bound up with that of certain beings and objects, no. 40, p. 342, no. 279 B, 415; people associated by their neighbours with the mythical being living in their village, no. 115; the people who fled before a ghost, the number of individuals joining in the fleeing crowd continually increases, no. 76; mythical heroes transformed into stones, p. 121; people transformed into ant-hills, no. 47. B, 378 B; into heavenly bodies, no. 451-454. Transformations into animals, mythical beings, or plants, see Animals, Mythical beings, Plants; character of the people, see Character; the origin of certain outward features of the human body, see Explanation of certain conspicuous features; see also Fabulous men and women, History.

Plants; how trees came to grow in Kiwai, no. 1, 333, 450; people who were transformed into plants, no. 22 A, 23 C, 266, 464; a tree (or piece of firewood) which was also a man, no. 109, 448, 496; gágama, the famous coconut tree, no. 3 A, 48 A, 493; the tree which serves as an omen, no. 193. Trees which talk, see Inanimate things; the origin of the peculiar features of certain plants, see Explanation of certain conspicuous features; plants which appear to people in dreams, see Dreams; see also Agriculture. Pregnancy, see Birth.

Property; distributing garden produce, game, and presents among the people, p. 86, no. 19, 23,

53, 54, p. 144, no. 102 A, 207, 236, 256 A, C, 262, 263, p. 337, no. 316, 317, 323, 420. A, 422, 467, 472; coconuts belonging to another person must not be appropriated by others, no. 4; firewood d:o, no. 488, 489, 490; the right of property of husband and wife, no. 23 F, G, p. 297, no. 236; children's right of property, no. 252; quarrel between different groups of relations as to the ownership of a certain article, p. 337; destroying or abandoning part of the property of a deceased person no. 328, 329; a tract of land transferred by the Másingára people to the Mawáta people, p. 92; the man who gave away another man's stone axe, no. 467. Marks used to indicate ownership, see Signs; see also Commerce and trade, Social intercourse, Theft.

Religion, see Mythical beings, Magic, Spirits of the dead.

Revenge; various manifeststions of revenge for murder, no. 6, 8, 245, 278, 285, 307 C, 308, 333,

sonal offence no. 60, 204, pp. 322 sq.; the spirits of sla Or t

334, 335, pp. 399 sq., no. 339, 341, 343, 347, 350, 355, 356, 357, 470, 485; for causing or planning another person's death, p. 374, no. 334, 465; for stealing" a woman, no. 28, 29, 55, 242, 243, 244, 245, 249, 259, 353, 364, p. 470; for theft, no. 102, 446; for perpeople desire their living friends to revenge their death, p. 374, no. 334; men are incited by the women to take revenge. upon enemies, no. 333; employing other tribes to take revenge, no. 332, 333, 334, 337, p. 401; revenge taken upon a whole people for an individual offence, p. 470, no. 446; re

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venge taken by killing the enemy's friends or relatives, no. 332, 333, 334, 465; a blood feud hardly ever ceases, p. 400, 402; trying to make a murder (in revenge) look like an accident, no. 333, 334; the shafts of arrows with which people have been killed are used as a sign of revenge, p. 397. See Social organization..

Sailing, see Travelling.

Semen; people grow up from, no. 14, 121; vegetables and fruit d:o, no. 14, 43, 44, 269; used in.

magic, no. 261, p. 340.

life, chapter VI (no. 217-232); women ashamed on account of their nudity, men may go nude, pp. 84 sq.; women taught to put on petticoats, no. 7, 9, pp. 84 sq., no. 197; the woman who was reprimanded because she wore too scanty a dress, p. 69; people taught the sexual act, no. 7, 15 B, C, 58, 272 F, p. 343, no. 477; the sexual desire satisfied in an abnormal way, no. 21, p. 118, no. 264; sexual intercourse between mother and son, no. 157 C, 454; sexual intercourse or marriage between brother and sister, no. 459 A, p. 502; love between two men, no. 232; the practice of sodomy, no. 9, 365 A; sexual intercourse or marriage between men and female animals, no. 228--231, 268 A; the man who had connection with a girl in the shape of a snake, p. 502; outraging a dead woman, p. 398; sexual excesses at the mogúru ceremony, p. 340, 344; a man must not cohabit with his wife after having drunk gámoda, no. 270; how the dogs were punished when they let out that their master had had connection with his wife, no. 436; narratives and ideas regarding the feminal sexual organs, no. 7, 58, 279, 373, 375, 386, 454 A; the sexual properties of women and female animals are a common source of magic, no. 22, p. 122, 125, no. 261, 265, 268; pieces of the genitals of men and women slain in battle are used as a magic medicine", p. 346; pigs are attracted to a garden if a man and woman have connection there, no. 334; the man who speared a dugong with his penis, no. 376. A husband loans his wife or a woman herself by way of paying for certain articles or services rendered, see. Commerce and trade; see also Birth, Family, Marriage, Semen, Women.

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Sickness and disease; men treat serious wounds, women light cases, no. 221; urine used for curing wounds, no. 221; healing wounds by magic, no. 184, 341; restoring the eye-sight of blind people, no. 198, 260; an omen which forebodes sickness, p. 242; the spirit of a slain crocodile which caused sickness, p. 471; stopping the progress of an epidemic by magic, p. 471; the use of a gope (carved board) for averting disease, p. 115; precautions taken by some men who had had sexual connection with a dead woman, p. 398; frogs have the effect of ruining people's teeth, no. 124.

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Signs, signals, messages, and records; marking out different plots of land to show ownership, p. 82, 93, 313, 332; signs indicating ownership in trees, p. 82, no. 440; indicating that coconuts should not be taken from certain trees, no. 4 D; a ring used as a token of friendship, p. 91, 92; marking out one's height on a wall as a kind of memorial, no. 289; sign placed close to a murdered man in order to show why he has been killed, no. 347, 367 A, 429; marking out one's way in the bush, p. 93, 148, no. 256 A, 472 A; painting or decorating oneself in token of sorrow or after performing a certain deed, see Dress; fire-signals, p. 74, 154, 216, no. 274 A, 297, p. 390, no. 350; signalling with a trumpet-shell, see

Implements; gesture language p. 3, 396; symbols, signs, and conventional gestures which bear reference to fighting, see War; people are invited to a dance by means of croton twig which serves as a symbol of an invitation of this kind, p. 457; messages expressed in certain tokens are sent from one place to another with various animals, no. 25, p. 119, 129, 148, no. 272, 276, 290, 433; mimicking certain sounds, p. 121; using a tally-rope for keeping an account of certain things, no. 120; two people who have decided to meet on a certain day split a coconut leaf between them for a tally in counting the days, no. 349 (bis), 489.

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Social intercourse; Regulations of public and private life: social organization, pp. 6 sq.; those who have killed many people, who procure many canoes, or spear many dugong and turtle are regarded as big men", no. 60 E, 362, 344; people sometimes work for certain great men, no. 19 C, D, 240; the people are taught various occupations, etc., by their leaders, see Teaching; the sick individuals and weak children were left behind when the Híamu people emigrated from Dáru, no. 296; people who conspire against their own community, no. 6, 332-336; a woman and her children belong to the community into which she has married, no. 6; the distribution of work between men and women, see Women. Hospitality, the treatment of strangers, etc.: manifestations of hospitality, visitors and their hosts exchange presents, etc., no. 19, p. 362, no. 297, 341, 349, 358, p. 503, no. 480, 489; kissing, p. 76, 363; the presence of strangers is not tolerated at certain ceremonies, no. 8 A, 19; strangers are killed, no. 8 A, 298; a visitor cannot be killed after he has had the use of his host's wife, no. 7 A; abandoning or killing shipwrecked people, no. 153 B, no. 307-311. Traces of communistic ideas: certain kinds of work are performed in common (canoe- and house-building, garden work), p. 91, no. 208; distributing garden produce and game among the people, exchanging presents etc., see Property; the punishment of a hunter who did not share the pigs killed by him with the people but ate them himself, no. 478; presents of food are given in return for certain services rendered, no. 135, 476, 491; near relatives do not accept any payment from each other, no. 300. Judicial practice: responsibility for certain deaths, no. 2, 298, 412 A, 476, 482, 478, 479, 483, 484, 486, 492; compensation given in certain cases of death, p. 216, no. 142, 172 A, 236, 240, 241, 242, 246, 248, 271, 273, 288, 295, p. 368, no. 302, 316, 319, 320, 467, 483, 492; compensation given for a slain dog, no. 362; punishing thief by burning him, no. 343; wrongdoers, etc., are killed by general agreement, no. 176, 288, p. 410, no. 481; investigation of a crime, no. 482; how a neighbouring tribe was employed to kill the women after the latter had got to know a secret ceremony, no. 281, 282. See Family, Property, Revenge. 121, 136, 142, 143 sq., no. 60, p. 195, 198, 199, no. 120, p. 213, 240, 249, 271, 273, 280, 313, 317, no. 268, 274, p. 338, 344, 345, 348, 354, no. 292, 293, 295, 296, p. 373, no. 349, p. 422, no. 375, 376, 378, p. 477, 495, 499, no. 461, 462, no. 471; a song by the spirits of the dead, no. 96. Sorcerers, see Magic.

Songs; p. 3, 12, no. 9, p. 88, no. 25, pp. 116 so

Soul; departs from the body, p. 83, 209, no. 357; flies about while the owner is dreaming, no.

388; urio (soul or spirit), no. 37, 43 A, 76, 77, 88, 89, 454 A; urio identified with reflec

tion in the water, p. 485; the soul may pass out from the body of a living person in a presentiment of his impending death and sometimes causes mischief, no. 89, 91, 153 B, 313, 338; a living person seeing his own soul, no. 91; a wandering soul shines in the dark, no. 338; the man who killed his enemy's soul first and then the man himself, no. 357. See Dreams, Spirits of the dead.

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Spirits of the dead, chapter III (no. 62-101). Their modes of appearance, etc.: their wanderings, people to whom they appear, p. 12, 13, no. 26-41, p. 117, no. 62-101, 103, 107, 119, 252 E, 292, 376, 378 A, B; they come to people in dreams, see Dreams; appear at the táera ceremony, no. 287; appear in the shape of animals, or pass into animals, p. 121, no. 87, p. 118 G, 431; radiate a light, no. 36 B. no. 97; disappear in a gust of wind, no. 378 B; white people connected with the spirits of the dead, no. 85, 497; must not be seen by daylight, no. 77; women dead in childbirth and certain other spirits of the dead cause trouble to people, no. 78, 306, p. 396; certain people are transformed into mythical beings after death, no. 110, 113, 119, 131, 224; spirits of the dead who pass into living people, no. 87, 90; a living man who was made akin to a spirit, no. 91; the spirit of a murdered man who was killed a second time, no. 76, 79; blocking the way of spirits, no. 26, 77; spirits of dead animals, no. 279 B, 434; the spirit of a slain snake which passed into a turtle, no. 416. Abodes of the dead: where people go after death, no. 9; Adíri (Wóibu), the land of the dead, no. 36 B, 38, 40 A, C, 41-43, 62-68, 111, 115, 380, 476, 497; the man who wanted to come to Adíri clean and shaven, no. 471 A; dead people who live under. the burial ground, no. 69-73; people who go up into the sky, p. 79, 80, 118. Different groups of spirits: tvióboro (people who have hanged themselves), no. 172 A; mánakai (spirit of a dead person), no. 70, 77, 83, 85, 92, p. 192, no. 169 B; oboro (spirit of a dead person), p. 80, no. 27, 71, 78, 81, 82, 85, 91, p. 192, no. 162, 172, 212, p. 353, no. 422, 466; an oboro has a foot like a pig, p. 256; úere-bóro (spirit of a person whose head has been cut off), p. 218; útumu (spirit of a person whose head has been cut off), no. 134, 135, 172 A, 191, 252 F, 267. Communication with the dead, manifestations of cult: conversation with spirits, no. 86, 69, 252 E, 476; rites performed with reference to the dead, people appeal to them for help in gardening, no. 44 F; in spearing dugong and turtle, no. 86, 89, p. 139, 160; in warfare, p. 139; in hunting, no. 58; in finding turtle eggs, no. 113; people beg the spirits to appear to them in dreams, no. 366; the necessity of recovering and burying the bodies of friends slain in battle, lest their spirits become displeased, p. 431; resentment of the dead if they are neglected, no. 86; the spirits of slain people want their living friends to revenge their death, p. 374, no. 334; the spirits teach people various useful things, no. 87, 93, 94; they present things to people, no. 75, 77, 87, 97, 98; they become guardian spirits, no. 90, 91; how people come into possession of guardian spirits, p. 187.

Suicide, people who commit; they hang themselves, no. 134, 210, 226, 234, 235, 247, 248, 454 D; drown themselves, no. 153 B, 237 A, 239, 492; burn themselves to death, no. 61 A, 239, 298, p. 392, no. 376, 437, 471 A; allow themselves to be killed by the enemy, no. 131, 224, 357, 489, 491; to be taken by a snake or crocodile, no. 226, 243; throw themselves down from a tree, no. 61 A; spear themselves to death, no. 298; an

attempt to commit suicide, no. 135; animals which commit suicide, no. 292, 471 A; the

protruding tongue of a person who has hanged himself, and the rope with which the deed has been done are used in magic, p. 216.

Teaching; the women to carry their babies in baskets, no. 7 B; the people to smoke, no 7 E, 15 A; to make bows and arrows, p. 78; to make war, no. 60 F; to make gardens, p. 78, 87, 88, no. 44, 56 F; to build houses, no. 1 A, p. 87, 88, no. 56 F, 58; to fish, p. 88, no. 129; to spear dugong, p. 89, 160, no. 87, 153; to perform certain ceremonies, no. 9 A; to divide the labour between men and women, no. 9 D; the use of bullroarers, p. 317; the different totems, no. 3 A; the right kinds of game, no. 14, 21, 321, 369 C, 459 A. See Dress, Fire, Sexual life.

Theft, no. 5, 50, 84, p. 194, no. 120, 156, 170, 174, 175, 233, 234, 256, 257, 337, 341, 343, 344, 345, 352, 446, 464, 481, 482.

Tobacco, no. 7 E, 15 A, p. 119.

Totems; totemic groups, p. 7; the appointment of the Kiwai and Másingara totems, no. 2 A, 263 B; the first coconuts distributed among the people according to totemic groups, p. 321, 323; conflicts between different totemic groups of the same people, no. 332; the ,,medicines" used in garden work vary among different totemic groups, no. 414 A.Travelling and sailing adventures, no. 297-306; communication between New Guinea and the

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islands in the Torres straits, no. 294-296, 463 (see Canoe traffic); people warn their children against travelling about too far from home, p. 395; under certain circumstances people when travelling must not stop on the way lest something evil befall them, no. 56, p. 232; marking out one's way in the bush, p. 93, 148, no. 256 A, 472 A; travelling on a drifting log of wood, no. 195, 292, 465; on a floating nipa-palm to which a mat was attached for a sail, no, 457 C; sailing on a raft, no. 44 D; inside the trunk of a floating tree, no. 25, 293; inside a turtle or large fish, no. 42, 44; towed by a dugong or turtle, no. 152, 153, 288, 308, 460; carried by a bird or fish, no. 42, 44, 52, 54, 111, 463; in a coconut shell, no. 59; in a drum, no. 148 A; flying in a trumpetshell, no. 194, 460; with the wind, p. 240; hurled through the air, no. 23, p. 224; on top of a bending tree, no. 22 A, B, p. 118, 166, no. 196, 462. See Bridges, Canoes, Commerce and trade, History. Urine, no. 83, 105, 221, 266, 414 A.

War and fighting, chapter XIII (no. 332-364); general description, p. 11. Additional narratives: fights among the natives in Kíwai, no. 4, 5, 6, 8; among the Másingára people, no. 10; between the Mawáta and bush people, no. 13; miscellaneous and fabulous fights, no. 8 A, p. 86, 98, no. 25, 40, p. 117, no. 54, 57, 60, pp. 161 sq., no. 156, p. 271, 243, 280 -282, 307 C, 311, 369, 466, p. 513, 470, 473; the first fight that ever took place, no. 25 D; the man who pretended to have been in a fight, no. 471, 478. Famous fighters: no. 57, 60, 61; Kúiamo and Nága are the creators of certain practices which are still followed in warfare, p. 139; Kúiamo was the first man to initiate the people in warfare, no. 60 F. Practices in warfare: warriors paint themselves previous to a fight, p. 144, 153, no. 60 F, p. 161, no. 423, 478 B; challenging an enemy to come and fight, no. 25, p. 220, no. 211, 242, 302, 339 A, 359, 360; the origin of the custom of cutting off heads, no. 6; cutting off heads with the stem of a sharp creeper, no. 6 A; the making of beheading knives,

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