[1237] Nat. Tr., p. 502; Dawson, p. 67.
[1238] Nor. Tr., pp. 516-517.
[1239] Ibid., pp. 520-521. The authors do not say whether these were tribal or blood relatives. The former hypothesis is the more probable one.
[1240] Nor. Tr., pp. 525 f. This interdiction against speaking, which is peculiar to women, though it consists in a simple abstention, has all the appearance of a piacular rite: it is a way of incommoding one's self. Therefore we mention it here. Also, fasting may be a piacular rite or an ascetic one, according to the circumstances. Everything depends upon the conditions in which it takes place and the end pursued (for the difference between these two sorts of rites, see below, p. 396).
[1241] A very expressive illustration showing this rite will be found in Nor. Tr., p. 525.
[1242] Ibid., p. 522.
[1243] For the principal forms of funeral rites, see Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 446-508, for the tribes of the South-East; Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., p. 505, and Nat. Tr., pp. 497 ff., for those of the centre; Roth, Nor. Queensland Ethnog., Bull. 9, in Records of the Australian Museum, VI, No. 5, pp. 365 ff. (Burial Customs and Disposal of the Dead).
[1244] See, for example, Roth, loc. cit., p. 368; Eyre, Journals of Exped. into Central Aust., II, pp. 344 f.
[1245] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 500; Nor. Tr., pp. 507, 508; Eylmann, p. 241; Parker, Euahlayi, pp. 83 ff.; Brough Smyth, I, p. 118.
[1246] Dawson, p. 66; Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 466; Eylmann, pp. 239-240.