[832] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 482.
[833] Ibid., p. 487.
[834] Taplin, Folk-Lore, Customs, Manners, etc., of the South Australian Aborig., p. 88.
[835] The clan of each ancestor has its special camp underground; this camp is the miyur.
[836] Mathews, in Jour. of Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, XXXVIII, p. 293. He points out the same belief among other tribes of Victoria (ibid., p. 197).
[837] Mathews, ibid., p. 349.
[838] J. Bishop, Die Niol-Niol, in Anthropos, III, p. 35.
[839] Roth, Superstition, etc., § 68; cf. § 69a, gives a similar case from among the natives on the Proserpine River. To simplify the description, we have left aside the complications due to differences of sex. The souls of daughters are made out of the choi of their mother, though these share with their brothers the ngai of their father. This peculiarity, coming perhaps from two systems of filiation which have been in use successively, has nothing to do with the principle of the perpetuity of the soul.
[840] Ibid., p. 16.
[841] Die Tlinkit-Indianer, p. 282.