The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[545] Langloh Parker, The Euahlayi Tribe, pp. 458, 478, etc. In Eleanbah Wundah, they hold their right hands pressed against their sides, which A. Lang thought a remarkable image. It is, W. E. Roth tells us, gesture-language for sickness. (Ethnological Studies in North-West Central Queensland, p. 90.)

[546] The Euahlayi, pp. 4 to 8, and 78.

[547] North. Ts. of C. Aust., p. 253.

[548] Howitt, Northern Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 435.

[549] Haddon, Reports of the Expedition to Torres Straits, V. pp. 37, 38.

[550] W. H. R. Rivers, J. A. I., 1909, p. 158.

[551] J. A. I., 1909, p. 163.

[552] Samoa, chs. iv., v.; especially pp. 28, 48, 62-3, 70, 75. Fiji had in some way deeply impressed the Samoan imagination.

[553] The Melanesians, p. 31.

[554] Origin and Development of Moral Ideas, II. p. 590.