INDEX

Aban Abit, [335], [337], [369]
Acolytes, Papuan, [256]
Adzes, stone, still used in canoe making, [220];
in Mekeo, [272];
Borneo, [368-70]
Afu (taboo in Mekeo), [270], [271]
Afu symbol at Inawi, [271]
Agi, [244], [245]
Agricultural ceremonies, [106]
charms, Torres Straits, [67], [86], [87], [107], [140];
New Guinea, [104-7], [202], [205]
Agriculturists, [212], [262], [323]
Agu, turtle trophy, [154-6]
Alexis, Brother, [252], [266], [270], [271], [276]
Alluvium, [212], [319]
Alukune, [221]
Aman (omen animals), [384]
Amentum, [201]
Andersen, Neil, [4-8]
Angabunga River, [261]
Anglo-Saxon overlord, [328], [329]
Anthreptes, [384], [385], [391]
Arachnothera, [384], [385], [390]
Archbishop Navarre, [185], [203], [252], [266]
Arctogale, [384-6]
Areca nut (betel), [217]
Ari, chief of Murray Island, [8], [9], [20], [28], [29], [57], [72], [74]
Ari (personal totem) at Cape York, [193], [194]
Arrow-points, making with a boar’s tusk, [269]
Astrolabe Range, [239]
Atsiamakara village, [242]
Augŭd (totem), [132]
Au kosker (big women shrine), [69]
Australian aspect of vegetation, [239]
colour names, [24]
dance, [193]
languages, [30]
medicine-man, [90]
Australians, Cape York, [190-4]
Baby, paying for, [175]
Balfour, Henry, [225]
Baling Go (the thunder god), [369]
Baling Go’s eyeball, [371]
front tooth, [370]
toe-nails, [369]
Ballantine, Hon. D., [205], [206], [236], [241], [244-6], [248], [251]
Balli Atap, [360]
Balli Flaki, offering to, [384], [409]
Balli Penyalong (god of child-naming), [354]
Balli Taun (god of harvest), [373]
Balungan (river dragon), [373]
Bamboo knife, [115]
Bampfylde, Hon. C. A., [279], [280]
Barawan, [321], [343]
house, [334], [336]
Bark belts, [266]
Bark-cloth shawl, [259]
Barker, Dr. A. J. C., [279]
Barking deer, [385]
Bartlett, E., [283]
Batang Kayans, [364], [365], [401], [403], [412], [413]
Batu Blah, [306], [321]
Beardmore, E., [111], [114]
Bêche-de-mer, [2], [3]
Beehive house in Murray Island, [58]
Bees, [383], [391]
Beheading knife, [115]
Berantu ceremony, [306-11]
Berenicornis, [384], [385], [388]
Betel, [217]
Biofa, [261]
Bird dances, Sĕbop, [358];
Torres Straits, [49], [114], [189]
Birding, [392]
Blood-letting, [222], [223]
Boar’s-tusk knife, [243], [269]
Boars’ tusks, abnormally curved, [370]
Boat races, [280], [401], [409]
Boigu, the island of spirits, [90]
Bok River, [333]
Bomai, [46], [47], [80], [180]
Brass-workers, [356]
Broad-headed natives, Sarawak, [321];
Torres Straits, [119], [120]
Borepada village, [204]
Bornean love stories, [376-80]
Borneo, physical features of, [212], [348]
Bouellat, Father, [274]
Bow and arrow fleam, [223]
Boys dressed up as Fulaari, [275]
Boy-throwing, game of, [228]
Brahminy kite, [388]
Brother Edmond, death of, [253], [254]
Bride-price, [363], [378]
Bridge, sacrifice for a, [339]
Brooke, Rajah Sir Charles. Cf. [Rajah of Sarawak]
Brooke, Rajah Sir James, [291-3]
Bruce, John, [8], [9], [31-5], [77], [78], [84]
Bruce, Robert, [168]
Brunei, [288], [291], [300], [327]
Malay, [327], [338], [341], [342]
Bulaa dances, [231]
village, [211], [212], [221-34]
Bulan, [376]
Bull-roarer, [42], [227];
in Torres Straits, [33], [107], [140], [156], [157];
in Kiwai, [104], [105];
at Cape York, [191], [192]
“Bundling” in Wales, [378]
Burial cave, [305]
Burke, Father, [253], [268]
Burns Philp, [235]
Burnt village, [208], [359]
Burong (omen animals), [384]
Burying under houses, [262]
“Bushmen,” Masingara, [111], [112]
Butiong (wooden image), [333]
Cainozoic rocks, [316]
Cambridge Peak, [347]
Canoe (Sarawak), [297]
Canoe-making in New Guinea, [220]
Cape York natives, [190-4]
Carcineutes, [384], [385], [388]
Card players (Papuan), [185]
“Cat’s cradle” games, [38], [39], [175], [201]
Cave of skulls, Pulu, [141-3];
Borneo, [305]
Cemetery, [284], [306]
Ceremony for the removal of skulls, [337], [352]
Ceremony of child-naming, [353], [354]
Cervulus, [384], [385]
Chalmers, Mrs., [95], [128]
Chalmers, Rev. James, [95-8], [104], [107-109], [128-30], [197], [203], [213], [249], [250]
Chalmers, Rev. W., [385]
Chapel, service in Catholic (New Guinea), [255]
Charms, agricultural (New Guinea), [104-7], [202], [205];
(Torres Straits), [67], [86], [87], [107], [140]
curative, [107]
fishing (dugong), [133], [134], [153], [154], [202]
injuring people, [106], [202], [203]
Chawat (loin cloth), [283]
to die in, [370]
Chevrotains, [385]
Character of Mabuiag people, [122]
of Murray Islanders, [72]
Chiefs, petty, in Sarawak, [414]
Children’s toys and games, [224], [231], [274]
Child-naming ceremony, [353]
Chinamen, [327-9]
Chinese districts, [316]
Chorus songs, [324]
Church at Saibai, [170];
at Mabuiag, [122]
Cicatrices, [110], [113], [200]
Cittocincla, [381], [384], [385], [389]
Clan houses, [99], [171]
Clarinet, [225]
Claudetown, [297], [311], [330], [357], [371], [379], [401-13]
Club houses in New Guinea, [99], [100], [208], [256], [257], [262], [268], [270]
Coal in Borneo, [318]
Cochard, Father, [185], [259], [268]
Cockatoo feathers for dances, [234]
Cockatoos, tame, [234]
Coconut palm, triple crowned, [172]
Coconut shrine, [67]
Codrington, Rev. Dr., [44]
Colour blindness, [126]
vision of natives, [24], [25], [245]
vocabulary, Australian, [24];
Kiwai, [24];
Torres Straits, [24]
Comet, [80-2]
Confederation of mountain tribes, [247]
Conscientiousness of Murray Islanders, [27], [29]
Constabulary, for enforcing taboo, [271]
Constellations, [139], [165-8], [381]
Cooking in Torres Straits, [41]
Copper Maori, [41]
Copra, [3]
Craniology, Torres Straits, [18], [119], [120]
Cotton cloths of the Iban women, [280], [285], [326]
Cowling, J., [117]
Crocodile-man, [171], [172]
Crystal sphere, [370]
Culm measures, [315]
Cult of skulls, [332], [394-400]
Cuscus, [110]
Customs of the Ibitoes, [258]
Cyclone, [79], [80], [88]
Cymodocea, [151]
Dalton, O. M., [372]
Dam, ceremony at, [61]
Dance costume, [113], [187], [214], [233], [234], [358]
Dances stopped by teachers, [35], [128]
Dances:
Australian, [193].
Bornean, [357], [358].
Papuan:
Babaka, [214-19];
Bulaa, [231];
Kăpăkăpă, [210];
Mabuiag, [131], [139], [140], [233];
Mawatta, [113], [114];
Muralug, [186-8];
Murray Island, [47-9], [60], [102];
Nagir, [182].
South Sea, [35];
Rotumah, [36], [53]
Ceremonial: Agricultural dances, [215-19];
death dances, [139], [182];
fishing dances, [183], [184];
Malu dances, [47-9], [102];
war dances, [60], [131], [140], [186-8], [233], [358]
Festive, [188], [189], [210], [231-3]
Mimetic, [49], [114], [188], [189], [358]
Danilkau, a funeral buffoon, [139], [140]
Danish thunderbolts, [372]
Dapoi River, [360]
Darnley Island (Erub), [5], [12], [51], [95]
Daru, [95]
Dauar, [12], [17], [18], [64-8]
Dauncey, Rev. H. M., [199], [201]
Death of a baby, [123]
of Brother Edmond, [253], [254]
Decorated skull, [91], [181]
Decoration, native, [332]
Deer, [383-6]
Delena, [199-201], [259], [260]
Deshon, Hon. H. F., [284], [285]
Devonian rocks, [315]
Divination by means of a parang, [366]
by pig’s liver, [336], [337], [354], [355], [411], [412]
in Murray Island, [54-6]
Divining grasshopper, [92]
skull, Torres Straits, [91], [92], [182]
zogo, [91]
Dog killing unlucky, [335], [364]
Dogs, supposed by natives to be sacrificed by the English, [339]
Doiom (rain charm), [32-5], [86]
“Doors,” [298], [331]
“Door” tax, [294]
Dorgai, [166]
constellation, [166]
Douglas, Hon. John, [1], [4], [20], [123], [170]
Douglas, R. S., [303], [304], [330], [337], [404-6]
Dowry, [363]
Dyeing patterns on cloth, [326]
Dragon, river, [373]
Drinking customs, [311], [402], [403]
Drought, [84], [86]
Drum-making, [257]
Drums, [231], [233];
sacred drum, [45]
Drunkenness, [356]
Dubu, [100], [208], [217], [234]
ascended by girls, [218]
Dugong, [151]
charms, [133], [134], [153], [154], [202]
food of, [151], [152]
harpoon, [149]
methods of catching, [148-54]
Dukduk, in New Britain, [51]
Dulit Mount, [344], [347], [348], [349]
Durian, [303]
Dusun, [321]
Earthquake in Murray Island, [78], [79]
Eastern Papuans, [199]
Economic defects of a hunting existence, [265]
Edible earth, [203]
Edmond, Brother, [253], [254]
Elevera, [235]
English, A. C., [206], [210], [214], [219], [226], [234], [248]
Eocene, [317]
Erabo (club house), [100]
Erub, [5], [12], [51], [95]
Eruptive rocks of Borneo, [318]
Ethnography of Sarawak, [320]
Evanena, [228]
Evans, Prof. E., [339]
Everett, A. Hart, [318], [372]
Eyesight, defects of, among natives, [24]
of hill tribes, [245]
Fable of the monkey and the frog, [343]
Fairy darts, [373]
Fanny Rapid, [377]
Fauna of Mount Dulit, [348]
Feasts, Murray Island, [39-41];
Mekeo, [272]
Feeding skulls, [396]
Fertility ceremony, [218]
Figure-heads of canoes, [407]
Fire, legend of origin, [108]
Fire-making in New Guinea and Torres Straits, [108], [109]
Fireworks, [402]
First man, legend of origin of, [108]
Fish, shooting with bow and arrows, [259]
Fisher-folk in New Guinea, [207], [221], [260], [261]
Fish, zogo, [68]
Fleam, [223]
Flutes, [205], [258]
Food restrictions, [135], [257]
Forge, [324]
Frazer, Dr. J. G., [134], [135]
Frigate bird, [204]
Frog, fable of, [343]
game, [228]
Fulaari, [271], [272], [275], [276]
Funeral in Murray Island, [93];
in Yule Island, [254]
Gaile, [206]
Games:
Borneo, mancala, [284]
Papuan adults’ games: hockey, [78];
tamar, [40], [58], [59], [62];
top-spinning (kolap), [40], [41]
Papuan children’s games: balancing (evanena), [228];
boy-throwing (omoro or frog), [228];
hopping, [227];
hunting kangaroo and pig, [274], [275];
imitating ceremonies, (fulaari), [275], (kwod), [180];
jumping, [227];
leap-frog, [227];
pig-a-back, [227];
revolving (maki gegelaki and rapurapu), [228];
ring games (kwaito pinupinu and mota ĕrĕmpto), [229];
round sitting games, played with the hands, (korikini), [229], (toitoi kinimali), [230], [231];
skipping, [227];
top-whipping, [272], [273]
Gapu (sucker-fish), [155], [156]
Garden charms, Torres Straits, [67], [86], [87], [107];
New Guinea, [104-7]
Gasiri (tree houses), [248]
Geigi’s fish-spear, [68]
Gelam, [16]
Genealogies of natives, [124]
Geographical features of Borneo, [312]
of British New Guinea, [207], [239-41]
of Sarawak, [286], [348]
Geological features of Borneo, [312], [348]
of British New Guinea, [207], [239], [240]
Geology of Sumatra, [315]
George, Brother, [266], [267], [276]
Gewe (chief of Agi), [244-6]
Ghost (lamar), [89], [90]
Ghost tiger, [305]
Girls ascending dubu, [218];
seclusion of, in Mabuiag, [135]
God of Harvest, [373]
Gold in Sarawak, [315];
in Torres Straits, [4]
Gomoridobo village, [234]
Gope (charm), [103], [104]
Gors, Mr., [205], [251], [266]
Government of Sarawak, [292], [294]
of Torres Straits by Queensland, [19-21]
Grammar of Torres Straits languages, [29], [127]
Granville, [235]
Grasshopper, divining, [92]
Graves, New Guinea, [112]
Great houses in New Guinea, [99], [213];
in Sarawak, [298]
Guilbaud, Father, [255]
Guis, Father, [253], [258-60], [276], [277]
Guise, R. E., [218]
Gunboat, [249]
H., Captain, [5], [6], [22], [80], [82], [95]
Hair, [18], [119], [223], [234], [325]
wavy, among Papuans, [234]
Haliastur, [384], [385], [387], [390]
Hammond Island, [185]
Hantus (spirits), [340], [369]
Hanuabada village, [235]
Harpoon, [148]
Harpactes, [381-5], [387-90]
Haviland, G. D., [283]
Hawk omen, [387], [352]
Hawk-owl, [391]
Head-hunters, Kiwai, [107]
Head-hunting, [322], [325], [328], [339];
object of, [107]
origin of, in Borneo, [397]
in Sarawak, reasons for, [394]
Hearing, acuity and range, [25]
Heliarctos, [391]
Hely, Hon. Bingham A., [95], [98], [103], [109]
Hill-land of Borneo, [316]
Hill tribes, colour-vision of, [245]
keenness of eyesight, [245]
History of Sarawak, [291], [292]
Hockey in Murray Island, [78]
Hoe, shell, [109]
Hogeri, [244]
Holiness, [67], [258]
Hood Bay, [219]
Peninsula, [211-34]
Hooks, magical, [370], [371], [373], [396]
Hopping, game, [227]
Hornbill, [410]
white-crested, [388]
Hornbills’ feathers, [395]
Hose, Dr. C., [297], [301], [303-5], [320-415]
Houses:
Torres Straits, [58], [110];
Kiwai, [99], [100];
New Guinea, [204], [206], [208], [211], [213], [223], [224], [242], [243], [268], [269];
Sarawak, [298], [290], [331-3], [335]
Hula, [211]. Cf. [Bulaa]
Human heads for foundations of Kuching waterworks, [339]
Human sacrifice, [339]
skulls. Cf. [skulls]
Hunters, [265]
Hunting games, [274]
Huts, [110];
sleeping hut in jungle, [299]
Hurricane in Torres Straits, origin of, [79], [80], [82], [87], [88]
Iasa (Kiwai), [98-108]
Iban (Sea Dayak), [281], [283], [301], [302], [305], [322], [324-8], [338], [341], [381-93]
Ibitoe, customs of, [256-9]
Inawi village, [269], [272]
Indo-Javan people, [322], [327]
Indonesian, [321]
Ingratitude of natives, [19]
Initiation ceremonies, [42];
in Murray Island, [44], [135], [140], [176], [191]
Instruction of lads (Murray Island), [49], [50]
Iriam Moris, [64]
Ireland, stone implements used as charms in, [373]
Iron, [338], [366], [395]
Irupi dance, [217]
Isang, [361]
Isit, [344], [384], [385], [390]
Islamism, [328]
Jangan, [352-5], [411]
Japanese in Thursday Island, [2], [3]
Jar burial, [306]
Jardine, Frank, [190]
Javano-Hindu colonisation of Borneo, [322], [327]
Javelin, miniature, [224]
Jawa, [404], [406]
Jesu baibua, [262]
Jumping game, [227]
Jungle, new, [304], [345]
Jungle, old, [304], [345]
Kadayans, [300], [301], [306], [321], [327], [341]
Kaikai, origin of term, [39], [40]
Kaivakuku, mask at Waima, [271]
Kajaman, [321]
Kalabit, [321], [323], [414]
Kalamantan, [289], [321], [324], [327]
Kalo village, [212-14], [219], [220]
Kalulong Mount, [349]
Kaluri, [357], [379]
Kamut (string puzzles in Murray Island), [38], [39]
Kanauit, [321], [284]
Kangaroo drive game, [274]
Kap, [188]. Cf. [Torres Straits dances]
Kăpăkăpă village, [208], [210]
Karangang, [299], [302]
Kayan tattoo designs, [306]
Kayans, [288], [297], [304-6], [323-5], [328], [357], [360], [364], [384], [386-93], [394], [395], [397], [401], [404], [405], [409], [414]
war-path of, [297], [304]
Kawit, [396]. Cf. [Hooks, magical].
Keapara village, [219-22]
Kedaman, [362]
Kelebong, [361]
Kenyah drinking songs, [311]
Kenyah-Kayan migration, [327]
Kenyahs, [288], [302], [323-5], [328], [340], [341], [364], [365], [384], [386-93], [395-8], [401], [402], [404], [405], [409], [413], [414]
Kerepunu. Cf. [Keapara]
Kernge (lads during initiation), [140]
Kersi (lads during initiation), [45], [48], [50], [61], [70]
Kina Balu, Mount, [349], [350]
Kingfisher, [388]
Kinimali (game), [230]
Kiriri Island, [185]
Kiwai Island, [24], [96-109];
natives of, [101]
Knife, bamboo, [115]
made of boar’s tusk, [243]
Knocking out tooth, [193]
Koiari, [244]
Koitapu, [249];
language of, [249]
Kolap (top), [40], [41]
Kŏpa-kŏpa, [175]
Korikini (game), [229]
Kwaito pinupinu (game), [229]
Kwari kwari (toy), [227]
Kwod (sacred ceremonial ground), [192]
in Mabuiag, [134]
in Nagir, [181]
in Pulu, [137-42]
in Tut, [176-78]
in Yam, [178-80]
small boys’, [180]
Kwoiam (the hero of Mabuiag), [136-47]
Kuching, town of, [279-84]
Kupor (navel shrine), [142], [177], [179]
Kuru (toy), [225]
Labuan Island, [286], [318]
Ladies of Tama Bulan’s house, [375]
Lakatois, [248]
Lamar (ghost), [89], [90]
Land Dayak, [321], [322], [327], [340], [391], [393]
Land inheritance, Cape York, [193]
Land leeches, [304], [346]
Langa (toy), [225]
Lange, Mr. H. W. de, [95], [97]
Language of Roro, [261]
Australian, [30]
Melanesian, [29], [30]
Papuan, [29], [30]
Languages of Torres Straits, [28-30], [127]
Lantern entertainment in Murray Island, [37], [38]
at Port Moresby, [246]
Laterite, [345]
Lawes, Dr., [208], [209], [234], [249], [273]
Lawes, Mrs., [209], [234]
Laziness of natives, [19]
Leap-frog, [227]
Legends:
Gelam, [16], [155];
of various shrines, [53-69];
origin of man, [108];
origin of fire, [108];
the stone that fell from the sky, [138];
of Kwoiam, [136-47];
about dugong, [155]
Lelak, [321], [410]
village, [330]
Lepocestes, [383-5], [389]
Lepuanans, [354], [355]
Liberality of natives, [90]
Life token, [259]
Lifu, colour-blindness of natives, [126]
head-form, [126]
Limbang, [285-90], [293], [297]
Ling, Roth H., [320], [381]
Linjau, [360]
Lirongs, [403-6], [410], [413]
Liver of pig, [336], [354], [355], [411], [412]
Lobong River, [352]
Logan Ansok, [406]
Loin-cloth to die in, [370]
London Missionary Society’s stations:
Murray Island, [9];
Kiwai, [96], [97];
Mabuiag, [117];
Vatorata, [208-10];
Delena, [199];
Bulaa (Hula), [211];
Port Moresby, [235]
“Long,” [333]
Long Aiah Kechil, [342], [344], [348]
Kiput, [321], [401], [404], [405], [410]
Pata, [302], [321], [341], [401], [405]
Pokuns, [360]
Puah, [352]
Semitan, [342]
Sulan, [360]
Tegin, [334]
Tru, [330]
Love affairs, Mawatta, [112];
Mabuiag, [158-64]
charms, Torres Straits, [106]
letters, Papuan, [163], [164]
Love-making in Mekeo, [258]
in Sarawak, [377-80]
Lovers’ tune, [379]
Low, Brooke, [283], [322]
Lower carboniferous rocks, [315]
Mabuiag, [117-64]
church, [122]
language, [127]
social condition of, [118]
war dance, [233]
Macfarlane, Rev. Dr. S., [7], [120], [127], [142], [143]
Macgregor, Sir William, [97], [102], [203], [205], [206], [209], [213], [251], [262]
Madangs, [364], [401], [410], [412], [413]
Madub (garden charm), [106], [107]
Madubu (bull-roarer), [104-6]
Magic. Cf. [Sorcery]
symbolic, [257], [133], [134]
Magical ceremonies, [133], [134], [184]
stone hooks, [370], [371], [373], [396]
Magur (“devil” belong Malu), [50]
Maiau, [180]
Maino (chief of Tut and Yam), [171], [174-80], [184], [185]
Maki gegelaki (game), [228]
Malangs, [321], [342]
Malay Archipelago, [372]
bear, [391]
Peninsula, [372]
rule, [288]
traders, [356]
Malays, [326-9], [338], [341], [342]
Malohs, [356], [357]
Malu, [46], [61], [180]
ceremonies, [42-52], [61-3], [102]
masks, [46-8], [92]
songs, [45], [46], [62], [63]
Mammals of Borneo, [348], [349]
Mamoose (Torres Straits chief), [8], [20], [21]
Mancala game, [284]
Mangoes, [302]
Mangroves, [266]
Manufacture of stone club, [245]
Map of stones, [61]
Marea (club-house), [100], [257], [262], [268], [270]
Mari, [181]
Mariget, [181]
Marine pile dwellings, [206], [223]
Marital relations in Mabuiag, [161]
in Murray Island, [20], [76], [78]
Market-place, [269]
Market women, [269]
Markets in Mekeo district, [265]
Marriage customs, Torres Straits, [158-64];
Borneo, [363], [364], [377-80]
Marsh land of Borneo, [319]
Marudi. Cf. [Claudetown]
Masingara “bushmen,” [111], [112]
Mask, war ceremony, [59];
Mawatta, [114];
fishing dance, [183];
Malu ceremony, [46-8]
in Mekeo district, [271]
Mausoleum, [284]
Mawatta, [111-116]
May Meeting, [128-31]
McDougall, W., [22], [23], [26], [28], [303], [305], [330], [337], [347], [405]
Medicine-man (Australian), [90];
(Bornean), [307], [374]
Meeting, public, [402], [410]
Mekeo district, [252-77]
markets, [265], [269]
tribe, [261], [262]
Mĕlanau, [321], [327], [357], [390], [391]
Melanesia, secret societies in, [44]
Melanesian languages, [29], [30]
Melanesians, [18]
Mer. Cf. [Murray Island]
Mesozoic rocks in Borneo, [316]
Milman, H., [111-113], [175]
Mimetic dances, [49], [114], [188], [189]
Miocene in Borneo, [317]
Mirror-writing, [25]
Mission schools in New Guinea, [97], [98], [208], [209]
Mixed marriages, [357]
Modesty of New Guinea women, [274]
Mohu, [252], [268]
Monkey and frog fable, [343]
Morality, code of in Torres Straits, [176]
Mosquito nets, native Papuan, [259]
Mota ĕrĕmpto (game), [229]
Motu tribe, [249]
Mountain ranges of Borneo, [312]
tribes, New Guinea confederation of, [247]
Mount Ernest. Cf. [Nagir]
Warirata, [240], [241]
Mourning in Murray Island, [94]
Mulu, Mount, [349]
Mummies, Torres Straits, [91]
Muntjac, [385]
Muralug (Prince of Wales Island), [119], [185-9]
Murder, [340]
Murders in Sarawak, [300-2], [338-41]
Muriks, [371]
Murray Island (Mer), [8], [11-21];
climate, [18];
geology, [12-17]
Islanders, [18], [19], [118], [119], [127]
Muruts, [321], [393]
Museum, Sarawak, [282-4], [372]
Musgrave, Hon. A., [205], [206], [236], [251]
Myers, C. S., [22], [23], [25], [26], [28]
Nagir, Island of, [180-3]
Names, reluctance to mention, [103]
Nara, tribe, [260]
Naroms, [321], [401], [409], [410]
Narrow-headed natives, Torres Straits, [18], [119], [120];
Sarawak, [321], [343]
Native cemetery (Sarawak), [284]
grief (Papuan), [222]
Navarre, Archbishop, [185], [203], [252], [266]
Navel shrines, [142], [177], [179]
Nēĕt (dugong platform), [152], [153]
New Guinea oratory, [268]
vegetation, [239], [241]
New Jungle, [304], [345]
Ninox, [391]
Numerals, Papuan, [30], [243]
Nurumara (totem of Kiwai), [101-3]
Oboe, [225]
Obstacle race, [401]
Offering of eggs, [409]
to Balli Flaki, [409]
Old Jungle, [304], [345]
Oligocene in Borneo, [317]
“Olive Branch,” [197]
Omen animals of Sarawak, [381-93]
birds, [344], [352], [362], [379], [381-93]
offerings to, [352]
Omens, [259], [344], [352], [362], [379], [381-93]
Omoro (game), [228]
Oracles, [53-7], [178]
Orang Bukit, [306], [401], [402]
Orang Kaya Tumonggong Lawai, [300-2], [406]
Oratory, Bornean, [411], [412]
Papuan, [268]
Origin of fire, [108]
Orthotomus, [384], [385], [390]
Owning an omen bird, [344]
Padi bug, [391]
competition, [401]
cultivation of, [323], [327], [360], [381-3]
swamp, [323], [325]
Painted board, sign of chieftainship, [270]
Palæozoic rocks in Borneo, [315]
Panyamun scare, [338], [340], [359], [365], [368]
Papuan Gulf, [198]
language, [29], [30]
Papuans, true, or Western, [119], [249]
Parang, [285], [324]
Pasi, Mamoose of Dauar, [8], [28], [72], [74]
Pata River, [375]
Paying for a baby, [175]
Peace-making at Baram, [401-15]
Pearl-shelling industry, [2-4], [6], [85], [121]
Pelandok, [383-6]
Pelican dance, [114], [189]
Penchallong, [410]
Penghulu, [335]
Pepker the hill-maker, [64], [65]
Perham, Ven. Archdeacon J., [381], [392]
Perineal band, painted, [274]
Personal totem, [194]
Petticoats (leaf), New Guinea, [111], [175], [274]
Philip, Brother, [273]
Phlebotomy, [223]
Phonograph, [37], [100], [200], [234], [252], [256], [273], [338];
in a marea, [256]
Photographing natives, [28]
zogos, [66]
Photographs (natives recognising friends), [9]
Physical features of Borneo, [348]
Pictographs, [137], [140], [185]
Pig-a-back, game of, [227]
Pig ceremony in Sarawak, [336], [353-5], [411], [412]
hunt (game), [274]
offering of for feast, [217], [270]
Pigsties, [298]
“Pigeons,” [74]
Pile dwellings: Kiwai, [99];
Saibai, [173];
New Guinea, [204], [206], [208], [211], [213], [235];
Borneo, [290], [298], [330], [331], [375]
driving, [224]
village, marine, [206], [208], [211], [235], [290]
Pinupaka, village of, [266], [267], [276]
Piracy, [291], [326]
Plains of Borneo, [315]
Plantations of the natives, [214], [234]
Platforms, taboo, [208]
Platylophus, [384], [385], [390]
“Play” in Murray Island, [36], [37], [63]
Pleiades, [381]
Pokao tribe, [262]
Police (native), Torres Straits, [19], [20], [76], [77]
Poles, frayed, [361]
Port Kennedy. Cf. [Thursday Island]
Port Moresby, [205], [235], [246], [248], [249]
Porpoises, [151]
Posts, carved, [375]
Pottery, manufacture of, [200], [248], [261]
Prayer to an omen bird, [344]
Praying to a pig, [336], [354], [411]
Presents from natives, [10], [122], [130], [172], [335], [336]
Prince of Wales Island. Cf. [Muralug]
Procrastinating habits of Sĕbops, [343], [346]
Proposals of marriage, [158], [162-4], [377]
Proto-Malay, [321]
Psychological laboratory, [23]
Psychology, experimental, [23-8], [109], [120], [200], [222]
Pulu, Island of, [136-43]
Punan medicine-man, [366]
Punans, [302], [304], [320], [323], [324], [327], [334], [355], [384], [389], [390], [393]
Punishments in Torres Straits, [20], [21]
Punitive expedition in Sarawak, [301]
Purchasing a stone implement, [368-74]
Quaternary rocks in Borneo, [318]
Queensland. Cf. [Australia]
Rabao (Yule Island), [199], [200], [203], [252-61], [276]
Race, practice, [402]
Raiding by New Guinea natives, [247]
Rain-making in Torres Straits, [33-5], [86], [87], [134]
stopping, [87]
Rajah of Sarawak, [279], [282], [284], [289], [291], [293], [300], [322], [338], [341], [411]
Rapids, [299], [358]
Rapurapu (game), [228]
Ray, S. H., [28-31], [39], [126], [127], [243], [248], [249], [252], [267], [273], [279], [298], [330], [358]
Rapids, [358]
Reaction experiments, [26]
Read, C. H., [372]
Reefs (coral), [1], [6-8], [12], [15-18], [117], [148]
Regatta at Baram, [402], [409], [410]
at Kuching, [280]
Relationship between two Papuan villages, [258]
Relic-fauna in Borneo, [351]
Remaung (ghost-tiger), [305]
Requiem Mass in New Guinea, [254]
in Rome, [254]
Reservoir in Kuching, [282];
scare about heads for foundations of, [339]
Resident, [293]
Restrictions in food, [135], [257]
Reticence of natives, [32], [45]
Revolving game, [228]
Rice, cultivation of. Cf. [Padi]
Ricketts, O. F., [285], [287], [301], [304]
River scenery, [286], [358], [359]
Rivers, Dr. W. H. R., [23-5], [27], [39], [59], [123], [124]
Rock paintings, [137], [140], [185]
Roro language, [261]
tribe, [260]
Rotumah dances, [36]
Roth, H. Ling, [320], [381]
Rove, [258]
Saba Irang, [364], [365], [410-12]
Sacred Heart Mission, [203], [252-6], [262], [266-77]
Sacredness, [67], [258]
Sacred stones, [360], [375];
of Murray Island, cf. [Zogo]
words or songs, [31], [32], [45], [40], [62], [63]
Sago factory, [287]
trade (native) in New Guinea, [248]
in Sarawak, [288]
Saguane village, [96-9], [104], [109]
Saibai, Island of, [170-4]
Salter, Dr., [1]
Samaria kosker (women of Samaria), [84]
Sarawak, [293]
geographical features of, [286]
history of, [291-3]
Malay, [322], [327]
Museum, [282-4], [372]
Sarcophagus, [334]
Sasia, [381], [384], [385], [387], [389]
Saw-fish chant, [184]
Scarification, [110], [113], [200]
Scott-Keltie Falls, [346], [348]
River, [345], [346]
Sea-cow, [151]
Sea Dayaks. Cf. [Iban]
Sĕbop, [321], [341], [343], [346], [357], [363], [371], [404]
chief, [363]
dances, [357], [358]
fable about, [343]
girls, [356]
head-form, [343]
village, [352], [368]
Seclusion of boys in Tut, [176]
of girls in Mabuiag, [135]
Secret societies in Melanesia, [44]
Secular dances, [188], [189], [233], [357]
Seligmann, C. G., [1], [23], [28], [62], [109], [135], [154], [200], [245], [248], [279]
Sengalong Burong, [384], [385], [387-9], [392]
Sensitiveness to pain, [26]
Shaduf, [287]
Sharpe, Dr. R. B., [350]
Shelford, R., [279], [283], [284], [372]
Shell hoe, [109]
ornaments, [261]
Shields, [357], [358], [360], [410]
Shirt as symbol of loyalty, [244]
Shrike, [390]
Shrines in Torres Straits:
Rain, [34];
Tomog Zogo, [54];
Zabarker, [60];
wind, [60];
Iriam Moris, [64];
therapeutic, [65];
coconut, [67], [87];
fishing, [68];
turtle, [69];
Au Kosker, [69];
Waiad, [69], [70];
yam, [86];
constipation, [88];
navel, [142], [177], [179];
of Kwoiam, [136-145]
Siap (charms), [368], [370], [372], [373], [399]
Sibu, town of, [284]
Siberian railway, sacrifice for, [339]
Sigai, [177], [179], [180]
Skipping game, [227]
Skull collecting, [92], [93], [120], [121], [337], [338]
cult of, [394-400]
danger of meddling with, [337], [353], [374], [399], [400]
decorated, [91], [181], [182]
divination, [92], [182]
Skulls:
Mer, [91-93];
Mawatta, [115];
Mabuiag, [120], [142];
Yam, [180];
Kiriri, [185];
Sarawak, [332], [337], [352], [394-400]
leaving old, [398]
loaning, [395]
preparation of in Kiwai, [107]
Sleeping with a sweetheart, [377]
Smell, sense of (Murray Islanders), [25]
Smelling a dance, [250]
Smith, Mr., [280], [283]
Smoking, Papuan method of, [75]
Snakes, omen, [391]
Social divisions in Mekeo, [270]
Sociology of Torres Straits, [19-21], [77], [118-20], [125], [145], [146];
of Kiwai, [99-109];
of New Guinea, [207], [208], [212-14], [242], [243], [247], [248], [270-2];
of Sarawak, [327-9]
Sogeri tribe, [244]
Songs, chorus, [324]
Sorcerer’s kit, [201]
Sorcerers, Mabuiag, [154], [262]
of Koitapu, [249]
Sorcery, New Guinea, [83], [202]
Murray Island, [128]
Soul house, [311]
of a sick woman, [310]
of the pig, [337]
South Sea dances, [35]
Spear-throwers, [200], [201]
Speeches, [354], [355], [411], [412]
Spencer, Prof. Baldwin, [134]
Spiral designs, [260]
Spirits (lamar), [89], [90], [340]
of sickness, [366]
Star myths (Torres Straits), [165-9]
St. John, Sir Spenser, [292], [294], [339], [386]
St. Joseph River, [261]
Stockades in New Guinea, [247]
Stone adzes in use (New Guinea), [220], (Mekeo), [272];
axes, Africa, [372]
club, manufacture of, [245]
clubs, [251]
implements in Kiwai, [108]
in Sarawak, [327], [368-72]
Stones, sacred, in Borneo, [360], [375]
String puzzles and tricks, [38], [39], [175], [201]
Sucker fish (Echeneis), fishing with, [155]
Suggestibility of natives, [27]
Sumatra, geology of, [315]
Sun birds, [390]
Sun, moon, and night (myth of), [168]
Supreme God in Sarawak, [336], [337], [352]
Sultan of Brunei, [288], [300]
Swimming diving, [121]
Symbolic magic, [257]
Taboo, [257], [270], [272]
Taburi, [244]
Tagai constellation, [166]
Tailor bird, [390]
Tama Bulan, [324], [335], [375-80], [401-6], [409-14]
Taman Liri, [335]
Tamar, [40], [58], [59], [62]
Tamate, [95], [128]. Cf. [Rev. J. Chalmers]
Taste, [26]
Tattooed hands, [306], [395]
Tattooing, [199], [204], [214], [222], [259], [305], [306], [326]
process of, in New Guinea, [222];
in Borneo, [305], [306]
Taxation in Sarawak, [293]
Teetotum, [227]
Tegulan, [360]
Thief, [222]
Thomas, Oldfield, [120], [142], [350]
Throwing-stick, [201]
Thrush, [389]
Thunderbolts, [372], [373]
in Europe, [372]
Thunder god, [369]
Thursday Island, [1-4], [183-5], [189-93]
Tiger, effigy of, [360]
Tight-lacing in New Guinea, [256]
Time, estimation of, [25]
Tingang, [363]
Tinjar River, [330], [358]
Tobacco, native, [243]
pipes, Papuan, [75]
Toitoi (game), [230], [231]
Tomb decorations, [285]
Tomog Zogo, [53-7]
Tooth, knocking out, [193]
Top-spinning in Murray Island, [40]
in New Guinea, [227], [272], [273]
Totemism, [43], [44]
in New Guinea, [101-3]
in Queensland, [193], [194]
in Sarawak, [393]
in Torres Straits, [102], [132-5], [138], [142], [171], [172]
Toy bows and arrows, [222]
throwing spear, [200]
Toys: Papuan children’s toys:
kuru (diamond), [225];
kwari kwari (hummer), [227];
oboe (vili vili), [225-7];
palm leaf puzzles (langa), [225-7];
spear (or javelin) throwing, [200], [201], [224], [225];
teetotum, [227];
tops, [272], [273];
whirligig, [225];
whistle, [227]
Trade, native: Borneo, [321-3], [356], [365];
New Guinea, [204], [213], [214], [222], [261], [265], [266], [269]
on the half-profit system, [222]
voyages, [248]
Tragulus, [385]. Cf. [Pelandok]
Tree-houses in New Guinea, [242], [248]
Tripang, [3]
Triple-crowned coconut palm, [172]
Trogon, [388]
Trumpet, [225]
Tuba-fishing, [324], [406], [408], [409]
Tuk (New Guinea sorcery), [83], [84]
Turtle charms, [69], [134], [140]
cutting up, [205], [157]
fishing, [155-7]
tracks in sand, [67]
zogo, [69]
Tut, Island of, [174-8]
U zogo (coconut shrine), [67]
Ufapie, [258]
Ukit tribe, [320], [323]
Umu Belubu, [305]
Urip, [354], [355], [396]
Vaccination marks, [172]
Vanigela River, [212]
Variability of native temperament, [27]
in character of the hair, [223]
Vatorata, [208], [234]
Vee, [261]
Vegetation, [65], [118], [212], [219], [239], [240-2], [269], [280], [281], [286], [304], [359]
Veifaa, [273-6]
Verandah in New Guinea houses, [99], [242], [243]
in Sarawak houses, [298], [331]
Vili vili (toy), [226]
Villages on top of hills, [242]
Visual acuity, [23]
Vitale, Father, [272]
Wag Zogo (wind shrine), [60]
Waiad, [69]
ceremonies, [70]
Waier, Island of, [12], [17], [18], [68-70]
Waima, masked men at, [271]
Waipem (turtle shrine), [69]
Wallace, A. Russell, [303], [348], [349]
Walker, Rev. F. W., [197]
War dances, [60], [131], [140], [186-8], [233], [258]
Waria, chief of Mabuiag, [123]
Warirata Mount, [240], [241]
Warpath of the Kayans, [297]
Warrior Island, [174]. Cf. [Tut]
Waterspouts, spirits of, [141]
Wauri, [156], [157]
Wedding in Mabuiag, [161]
Weight, discrimination of, [26]
West Africa, stone axe-heads, [372]
Whipping-tops, Mekeo, [272];
Kabadi, [273]
Whirligig, [225]
Whistle, [227]
Widow in mourning, [206]
Wife-beating and slanging, [20], [76], [83]
Wilkin, A., [27], [28], [38], [100], [157], [248], [252], [267]
Wilson, Prof. T., [273]
Wind charm, [60], [82]
instruments, [225]
zogo, [60]
Women beating drums, [218]
Women’s ceremony, [219]
Wooden belt, [256]
bowl, [220]
hooks, [396]
images, [104-7], [333], [360], [375]
Woodpecker, [389]
Yam, Island of, [174], [176], [178-80]
Yam charms, [104-7], [202], [203]
zogo, [86]
Yaraikanna tribe, [190]
Yeku, [262]
Yellow earth, [172]
Yule Island. Cf. [Rabao]
Zab Zogo (fishing-shrine), [68]
Zabarker shrine, [60]
Ziai Neur Zogo, [65]
Ziria, [252], [256]
Ziriam Zogo, [59]
Zogo, [53-70];
meaning of term, [67];
coconut, [87];
divining skull, [91];
of Wiwar (constipation), [88], [89];
yam, [86]
mer (sacred words), [31], [32], [45], [46], [63]
Zogole (sacred men of Murray Island), [48], [61], [70], [88], [89], [92]

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