- A
- abris, [322]
- Acacia salicina, [157]
- acacia seed, [150], [151]
- Adelaide tribes, [xii], [100], [102], [180], [195], [204], [206], [208], [212], [214], [360], [366]
- administration, tribal, [225 et seq.]
- adzes, [366], [367]
- Affenspalte, [38]
- “alangua” (native pear), Knaninja, [353]
- albinism, [48]
- “Algerrigiowumma,” sky-shying act, [238], [239]
- Alligator River, [197], [249]
- allotment of infants, [221], [222]
- “Altjerra,” [279], [295], [341], [342]
- “Altjerrajara,” Supreme Number, [271], [296]
- “Altjerringa,” [279], [296], [342]
- “Aluggurra” women, [343]
- Aluridja tribe, [xii], [4], [47], [48], [50], [65], [78], [82], [83], [92], [95], [111], [114], [121], [147], [149], [150], [151], [153], [155], [170], [176], [178], [184], [192], [200], [205], [213], [226], [231], [236], [239], [240], [243], [255], [259], [264], [267], [269], [271], [272], [282], [295], [296], [349], [356], [361], [362], [387], [396], [398], [400], [402]
- amputation of finger joints, [253], [254]
- ancestor worship, [257]
- animation, in art, [320], [336], [337], [338]
- animal tracks, drawn in sand, [70-73]
- anthill burial, [206];
- of bone, [214]
- Anthistiria (kangaroo grass), [276], [387]
- anthropomorphous designs, [353-358]
- “Antjuarra,” tooth-rapping ceremony, [235]
- anvil-stone, [369]
- approaching a stranger, [2], [3];
- a camp, [105]
- appreciation, expression of, [399]
- archer fish, ochre drawing of, [328]
- armistice, [188]
- Arnhem Land, [50], [196], [197]
- Arrabonna Tribe, [4], [200], [237], [269], [362]
- “Arrarra,” a circumcision ceremony, [239 et seq.]
- “arrera,” kangaroo, Knaninja, [352]
- “Arrolmolba” (phallus), [291]
- art of the aboriginal, [xi], [xii], [297-358]
- artificial colouring of body, hunting, [142];
- in warfare, [184];
- of emissaries at initiation, [254];
- for cosmetic and ceremonial purposes, [324-326]
- artificial warmth applied to infant, [66]
- Arunndta Tribe, [xi], [xii], [4], [6], [48], [50], [63], [65], [70], [76], [77], [78], [82], [83], [86], [92], [95], [103], [106], [114], [121], [125], [142], [147], [149], [150], [151], [152], [153], [155], [166], [170], [172], [175], [176], [178], [184], [192], [200], [205], [214], [218], [220], [226], [231], [237], [238], [263], [264], [271], [272], [274], [275], [282], [287], [291], [292], [295], [296], [308], [311], [321], [328], [330], [337], [338], [341], [343], [347], [349], [350], [352], [361], [362], [363], [386], [387], [390], [391], [398], [399], [400], [401], [402], [403], [404], [405]
- “Atoakwatje,” water-men, [264], [265]
- aspirate sounds, [403]
- attachment of parents to children, [65], [66]
- “aumba” (Brachysema), [153]
- Australoid, [58], [59];
- migrations, [56], [57], [58]
- awl, stone, [365]
- Ayers Ranges, [75]
- B
- bailers, [95]
- baldness, [50]
- ball-games, [77], [78]
- bandicoot, corrobboree of, [383]
- “banki,” prepuse, [243]
- bark, canoes, [160-164];
- drawings, [323];
- shield, [86], [87];
- water-carriers, [92], [93]
- barramundi vertebræ used as spear heads, [198]
- barter, with ochre, [113];
- with women, [222]
- bathing, [99]
- Bathurst Islanders, [76], [77], [93], [95], [96], [115], [159], [161], [163], [168], [207], [238], [309], [310], [319], [323], [373], [379], [380]
- beard, [50], [51], [117];
- of female, [46]
- bees’ honey, [145]
- bell-bird, [386]
- belly, [20], [21]
- Berringin Tribe, [4], [11], [129], [130], [201], [374]
- beverages, [153]
- biological consanguinity between Australia and other continents, [55]
- bird-like attitude, [107]
- birds’ eggs, [125], [126]
- birth of aboriginal, [61-68]
- biting the initiate’s head, [244], [245]
- bleeding, stanching of, after circumcision, [243]
- blindness, following club hit, [37]
- blonde, aboriginal, [48], [49], [50]
- blood, drinking of, [154];
- stilling the flow of, [186];
- thrown at opponent during a duel, [166];
- revenge, [187]
- Bloodwood apple, [152]
- Bloomfield River, [48]
- blue eye in aboriginal, [25]
- Blue Mountains, [57]
- boabab, carved tree, [309];
- carved nuts, [311], [312], [313], [331];
- nuts used as rattles, [374];
- trees serving as reservoirs, [97], [98]
- “Bobi,” tjuringa, [270]
- body decoration, at completion of mourning, [214], [215];
- cosmetic, artistic and ceremonial, [324], [325], [326].
- See also [artificial colouring of body]
- “Böllier” ceremony, initiation, [250]
- bone, carving of, [313];
- “pointing” the, [174-178], [209]
- bone-pointed spear-thrower, [201]
- bones of dead man collected, [214];
- radius selected for “pointing bone,” [215]
- “boning” to death, [174-178], [209]
- boomerang, practice, [86];
- used as a musical instrument, [374], [383];
- used in duels, [168];
- used in warfare, [187], [188]
- “boomerang-legs,” [15]
- boomerang-spear duel, drawing of, [330], [338]
- boras, [377]
- boys, apportioned to old men, [65], [66];
- taught use of weapons, [85], [86]
- Brachysema Chambersii, [153]
- brain of aboriginal, [37], [38]
- breast, [18-20];
- artificial lactation of, [20];
- development of, [19];
- enchantment of, [19];
- touched with charred mulga, [65]
- Bremer, Sir Gordon, [144]
- Buccaneer Archipelago, [50], [51]
- buffalo, drawing of, [325], [337];
- hunt, [144], [145], and [Frontispiece]
- bull-roarer, used at circumcision, [241], [242];
- at mika operation, [246];
- at tooth-rapping ceremony, [232], [233]
- burial and mourning customs, [203-215]
- burial ground, signpost erected at, [207]
- burial in anthill, [208]
- C
- Calamus used as paint brush, [319], [320]
- Caledon Bay, [115]
- calvarium, Tennants Creek, [53];
- used as a drinking vessel, [214]
- Cambridge Gulf Tribes, [x], [51], [62], [65], [74], [93], [99], [101], [226], [238], [282], [288], [375], [377], [405]
- camel, ochre drawing of, [329]
- Campbell, John, [344]
- camp, clearing a site for, [100];
- life, [100-119];
- occupations while in, [112], [113];
- selection of, [91]
- camptocnemia, [15]
- cannibalism, [21], [189]
- canoes, [160-164];
- dug-outs, [164];
- housing of, [162];
- with outriggers, [164];
- with sail, [164]
- capacity of skull, [37]
- Cape York, [93], [104]
- caravan travelling, [1]
- caries, [31]
- Carpentaria Gulf, [50], [93], [128], [129], [151], [160], [161], [162], [164], [189], [201], [266], [287], [375]
- carpentry taught boys, [85]
- carrying, dogs, [67];
- infants, methods of, [66], [67]
- carved bone, [313];
- grave posts, [207], [309-310];
- pearl shell, [313];
- trees, [308], [309];
- weapons, [310]
- carvings in rock, [299-308]
- Cassia, branch used as an emblem of peace, [2];
- used for headgear, [280]
- casus belli, [183]
- caterpillar, [122];
- totemic designs of, [350], [352]
- Caucasian, [58], [59];
- derived from Australoid, [59]
- cave drawings, [314], [315], [322 et seq.];
- of Glenelg River, [333], [343-345];
- inspiration given by natural feature, [331], [332]
- celestial “walk-about,” [296]
- ceremonial dance, drawing of, [332], [338]
- ceremony of welcome, [379]
- character of aboriginal, [227]
- characteristics of race, [5-17]
- charcoal drawing, method of, [323];
- of ceremonial dance, [338], [332];
- of crows, [319], [335], [336];
- of buffalo hunter, [325], [337];
- of kangaroo hunter, [326], [337]
- cheek bone, [30]
- chief of tribe, [226]
- chignon, [47]
- child decorations, [84], [85]
- childhood, [69-90]
- children, entertainment of, [69], [70], [71];
- position of at ceremonials, [84], [85];
- playing with sand and mud, [73-75];
- running after wind-driven seeds, [76];
- taught to sing and dance, [70];
- taught to draw and imitate tracks, [71], [72], [73];
- tobogganing, [75]
- chin, [29]
- Christianity, [257]
- cicadae and crickets, musical powers envied, [384]
- cicatrices, [236-238], [250]
- circle-within-circle designs, [351], [353]
- circumcision, [239-244];
- drastic treatment of shirkers, [243]
- clubbing the initiate, [242]
- clubs, [168], [169], [170];
- in warfare, [188]
- club-rule, [222-223]
- “coal sack,” [332]
- cockatoo, kept as pet, [89]
- colour, artificially applied to body when hunting, [142];
- of aboriginal’s skin, [40-45];
- affected by climate, [45], [49], [59]
- composition, in aboriginal art, [338]
- conception, ideas about, [284], [285]
- conventional designs, [346 et seq.]
- conventional representation of human figure, [353-358]
- conversation, actions aiding, [395];
- by song, [385]
- conversationalist, the aboriginal as, [371], [395]
- Coo-ee, [2]. See also “[käu],” [142]
- cooking, methods of, [108]
- cooleman, [92]
- Coopers Creek, [50], [83], [92], [102], [114] (Barcoo), [121], [127], [150], [155], [169], [170], [190] (Barcoo), [200], [237], [362], [376]
- cores, stone, [364]
- corrobboree, [377]
- cosmetics, [115]
- Cossus moth (witchedy), [122], [204]
- cotton tree (Bombatt malabaricum), [249]
- council of old men, [225], [226]
- Crocker Island, [131], [191]
- Crocodile, carvings of, [331];
- ceremony of, [377];
- eggs of, [126];
- floating log to simulate, [159];
- hunting the, [134]
- cradle, food-carrier taking the place of, [65]
- “cratch-cradle,” [84]
- crawfish, [128]
- cremation, not practised, [204]
- crossed boomerangs, the symbol of strife, [347], [351]
- crows, ceremony of, [378], [379];
- drawing of, [319], [335], [336]
- “cutting” the shadow, [175]
- Cunningham, Professor D. J., [24]
- Cyperus rotundus (“yelka”), [148]
- Cyrena, acting as a pigment dish, [319];
- used as a scraper, [162]
- D
- “dabba,” stone knife, [367]
- daggers, [172]
- Daly River spear types, [196], [197], [198]
- “damatba” throwing weapon, [170]
- “dangorra,” the great emu in the sky, [315], [333], [349]
- Darwin, Charles, [33]
- dead person’s name not mentioned, [211], [212]
- death, tracing the cause of a, [208], [209]
- dental rudiments, [33]
- de Rougemont, [133]
- desert surroundings, [1]
- dialects, variety of, [387], [388]
- “didjeridoo” drone pipe, [375], [376], [379], [380]
- Dieri Tribe, [xiv], [4], [76], [82], [83], [92], [111], [121], [150], [155], [170], [172], [190], [205], [206], [218], [237], [242], [271], [282], [289], [290], [361], [362], [376], [386], [396], [400]
- diminutive expressions, [396], [400]
- “dindula,” hair ornament, [47]
- dingo, the wild dog of Australia, [119];
- hunting the, [141];
- mythical dingo or “knullia” people, [342]
- Diprotodon, [52], [54];
- associated with other bones, [119];
- carving of spoor, [307]
- disc throwing, [76]
- discipline, [85]
- diseases, the cause of rapid decline of aborigines, [xiv]
- dog, the constant companion of aboriginal, [118], [119]
- dolichocephaly, [35]
- dolls, [79], [80]
- down-decoration of ground, [282], [326]
- Dravidians, [58]
- drawings, in sand, [70-73];
- of “totem,” [339-343]
- dress, mode of, [113], [114], [115]
- drinking, methods of, [98], [99]
- drone pipe, [375], [376], [379], [380]
- drought, trying conditions of, [117]
- Dubois, Professor, [55]
- Duboisia Hopwoodi, [155]
- Duckworth, Professor, W. L. H., [33]
- duels, [165-174];
- boomerang, [168];
- chivalry displayed in, [174];
- club, [168-170];
- damatba, [170];
- heavy spear, [172], [173];
- kutturu, [165-168];
- reed spears, [171];
- stone dagger, [172];
- shield used in, [173]
- dugong, hunting the, [134-137];
- sung to during initiation, [19]
- dugout canoes, [164]
- Durham Downs, [237]
- E
- ear, [29], [30]
- echidna designs, [336], [346], [347]
- eggs, of birds, [125], [126];
- of reptiles, [126]
- “Elaija,” a sacred ancestor, [283]
- “elbola,” bark headgear, [280]
- “elenba,” wooden hair pins, [47]
- elopement, [223]
- emu, in the sky, [315], [332], [333], [334], [349];
- carved in boabab, [309], [330];
- carving on boomerang, [317];
- ceremony, [274-280], [377], [378];
- game, [81], [82];
- gum leaves imitating the rustle of, [374];
- hunting the, [129-140];
- neck in the sky (“Yirrerri”), [334]
- enemy, corrobboree portraying the slaying of, [383], [384]
- “engulba,” pitjuri, [155]
- ensellure, [7]
- epipteric bone, [36]
- “Erinnja,” an evil spirit, [294]
- “erriakutta” (yelka) ceremonial drawing, [282], [327]
- erythrism, [48]
- escort of natives, [2]
- Etheridge, R., [x]
- ethmoid, [25]
- “Etominja,” sacred ground design, [282], [326]
- Eucalyptus corymbosa (Bloodwood), [98], [152];
- dumosa (water mallee), [98];
- miniata (woolly butt), [161];
- rostrata (red gum), [147];
- tetradonta (stringy bark), [161]
- Eugenia, leaf poultice applied to breast, [20]
- evil spirit, [291], [292], [294], [299], [314], [385]
- exchange of wives, [224]
- exclamations, [398], [399]
- external angular process, [25]
- extremities, length of, [10]
- eye, [23], [25]
- F
- Face, [22-30]
- fat of emu and goanna, [115]
- fatty tissue scant in aboriginal, [5], [6]
- fatty tumours, [6]
- feather wig, [50]
- femur, [14], [15]
- feet, evolution and use of, [10 et seq.];
- “hand-like” form of Berringin tribesman, [11]
- fibula, [16]
- fight, corrobboree of, [382]
- figure contrast between aboriginal and European, [5 et seq.]
- fire-fly, artificial, [376]
- fire ceremony (“Ngardaddi”), [261], [263]
- fire, [108];
- shovels, [109], [110];
- saw, [111], [202];
- sores, [110];
- stick, [110], [112];
- whisk, [110], [111];
- the precursor of civilization, [258], [260];
- legend concerning origin on earth, [259], [260]
- fireless cooking, [80]
- fire walking, [236]
- firewood, gathered by women, [107]
- fish, barriers, [129];
- designs, [350];
- hooks, [132];
- nets, [129], [130], [131];
- nooses, [129];
- ochre drawings of, [328];
- spears, [131], [132]
- fishing, in parties, [127], [128], [129];
- line, [132];
- methods, [127], [128];
- races, [128]
- flatfoot, [12]
- Flinders, Matthew, [117]
- Flinders Ranges, burial customs in the, [206];
- ochre mine, [316];
- rock carvings, [299], [303-308]
- flying fox design, [345], [350]
- foetal elements (“rattappa”), [287]
- food-carrier, used as cradle, [64], [65], [66]
- food restrictions, [250], [251]
- foot of Tasmanian, [14]
- footmarks in caves, [322]
- fourth molar, [32], [33]
- forehead, [23], [35]
- Fowler’s Bay, [64], [76], [295], [383]
- Fraipont’s method, [28], [29]
- frog, corrobboree of, [379]
- frog dance of children, [70]
- frog designs, [335], [346]
- frontal bone, [35], [36]
- frontal suture, [34]
- Frontispiece, [145]
- funeral chant, [211]
- G
- gagging the initiate, [242], [246]
- Garner, Professor, [405]
- Genyornis, carving of track, [308]
- geological antiquity, [49], [52], [53], [54]
- gesture language, [388-394]
- “gibba,” chewed bone, [176]
- “Gibberi,” circumcision, [242]
- Gibraltar skull, [23], [32]
- Ginmu Tribe, [4], [253]
- girls accompany women instructors, [85]
- Glenelg River, [xi], [159], [288], [312], [333], [344]
- goanna, [127]
- Gondwana, [55], [56]
- Good Spirit, [294], [295]
- goose hunting, [138], [139]
- “gorri,” a game played on the Humbert River, [76], [77]
- gouge, bone, [314]
- grasshopper, [387]
- grass tree, cover when emu hunting, [140];
- flower stalks used for making spear shafts, [195]
- grave posts, [207]
- Great Australian Bight, [66], [141], [169], [192], [199]
- great emu ceremony, [274 et seq.]
- Grey, Sir George, [xi], [219], [272], [340], [343], [344]
- Gribble, E. R., [17]
- Groote Island, [101], [164], [197]
- ground drawings, [282], [326], [327]
- grubs, [122-125]
- gruesome rite, [247], [290]
- “gummanda,” cicatrices, [238]
- H
- habitations, [101-105]
- half-castes, [59], [60]
- hailstone (“Imbodna”), mythical stone, [264]
- hair, [46], [47];
- belts, [116];
- cutting of, [117];
- pins (wooden), [47]
- Hakea bark, charcoal used for blackening hair, [285]
- hammers, stone, [360]
- hand-ball, [77]
- hand-like feet, [10-12]
- hand-prints in caves, [321], [322]
- hand-mills, [319], [361]
- hardening the child, [236]
- hatchets, stone, [362], [363]
- hawk traps, [137], [138]
- head-biting during initiation, [244], [245]
- head-dress, of emu ceremony, [277];
- of “tjilba purra” (phallic) ceremony, [287]
- head-rests, [105]
- height of aboriginal, [16], [17]
- Helix perinflata, [121]
- Hickson, Sydney, [49]
- hide and seek, [78], [79]
- Higgin, A. J., [157]
- hollow trees used as shelters, [102]
- honey, wild bees’, [145];
- drink, [153], [154]
- honey-ant, [146], [147]
- Howitt, Dr. A. W., [295]
- human chain-pattern, [353], [354], [355]
- human form, pictographic representation of, [353-358]
- Humbert River, [76], [320], [324], [336], [337], [352], [353], [403]
- Humboldt, Alexander von, [20]
- humerus, [16]
- hunt, objects of the, [121]
- hunting, [120-147];
- buffalo, [144], [145];
- crocodile, [134];
- dingo, [141];
- dugong, [134-137];
- emu, [129-140];
- geese, [138], [139];
- hawks, [137], [138];
- kangaroo, [141-144];
- opossum, [140], [141];
- turtle, [132], [133];
- whistling duck, [139];
- wallaby, [141];
- wombat, [141]
- hunting instinct, [120], [121]
- hunting with fire, [126]
- huts, [102-105]
- Huxley, Thomas, [24]
- hypertrichosis, [46]
- I
- “ilbarinam,” tjuringa, [xi]
- “ilja-imbadja,” hand marks in caves, [321]
- “ilgarukna,” venesection, [275]
- “illiya tjuringa,” emu ceremony, [274 et seq.]
- “ilpalinja,” sun worship, [265-267]
- “Iltdana,” evil spirit, [292]
- Ilyauarra Tribe, [4], [205]
- “Imbodna,” a mythical hailstone, [264]
- “Imboromba,” a spirit father’s mate, [287]
- imitation, of the plovers’ call, [70], [265], [379], [386];
- of the dingo’s howl, [70];
- of the jungle fowl’s call, [380];
- of the crow’s call, [378];
- of the crocodile, [377];
- of the emu, [279], [378]
- “Indorida,” the mate of Rukkutta, [291]
- infant betrothal, [221]
- infant, treatment of, [64-68];
- rubbing milk and charcoal over body of, [65];
- singeing hair of, with fire stick, [65]
- “ingada,” a chief, [226]
- Ingada Ladjia Knaninja, leader of yam ceremony, [281]
- “ingwitega,” munyeroo, [150]
- inion, [36]
- initiation, [230-256];
- amputation of finger-joints, [253], [254];
- of the female, [252], [253];
- origin of, [251], [252];
- without mutilation, [249]
- instinct for locating water, [96]
- interment, [205-207]
- internal angular process, [25]
- interrogatives, [403]
- intitjuma, ceremonies, [274]
- intoxicating drink, [153], [154]
- introduction to a tribe, [1-3]
- iris, [25]
- “irr,” [171];
- expression of disgust, [118]
- “irriakutta,” yelka, [149]
- J
- “jarrulge,” mulga apple, [152]
- Jewish features, [26]
- “jingardti,” a chief, [226]
- Joyce, Capt. T. A., [x]
- judge of character, [228]
- “judja,” a chief, [226]
- jungle fowl, corrobboree of, [380], [381]
- jus primae noctis, [256]
- justice, idea of, [227]
- K
- “kadabba,” phallus, [283], [284]
- Kai Kai, an old medicine man, [180]
- “kaidi,” tjuringa, [270]
- kaili (boomerang), used as musical instrument, [383];
- miniature, for practice, [82]
- Kaitidji (Kaitish) Tribe, [4], [92], [364]
- Kakera, marriage group, [220]
- Kakatu Tribe, [4], [267]
- “kaleya pubanye,” the sitting emu (coal sack), [332]
- “kaloa,” raft, [160];
- toy models of, [82]
- “kalumba,” nardoo, [150]
- “kalunuinti,” phallus, [288]
- “kanbanna,” paddles, [159]
- kangaroo, charcoal drawings of, [321], [326], [336], [337];
- conventional representation of, [350];
- corrobboree of, [381];
- hunt, [141-144];
- ochre drawings of, [327], [328];
- origin of “arre,” its name, [387];
- tjuringa design of, [349], [352]
- “kapa” or “kadje,” water lily, [151]
- “kapi wiyinna,” magic water stick, [264]
- “karru,” milky way, [349]
- “karwinnunga,” shield, [173]
- “käu,” vide [Coo-ee], [142]
- “käu-käu,” chewed bone, [176]
- “kaula,” native pear, [152]
- Keith, Sir Arthur, [x]
- kidney fat and marrow of dead warriors eaten, [189]
- Killalpaninna, [290];
- “killa wulpanna,” [290], [291]
- King Sound natives, [50], [82], [88], [132], [151], [159], [283], [309], [311], [330], [358], [363], [396]
- kitchen-middens, [121], [122]
- Klaatsch, Professor Hermann, [x], [25], [28], [29], [42], [50]
- “Knaninja,” [xi], [265], [271], [274], [280], [281], [282], [285], [327], [341], [352], [353]
- “Knaninja Arrerreka,” mythical sun creature, [265];
- ceremonies of, [274]
- knives, stone, [364]
- “knudda” (fat) of witchedy, [342]
- “Knurriga Tjilba Purra” (phallus), [286];
- head of the Kukadja, [285]
- kobong, [xi], [219], [226], [232], [269], [271], [272], [340]
- Kochia bush, used for making vegetable-down, [276]
- Kolaia Tribe, [4], [65]
- “kolldürr,” stone spear-head, [370]
- Kukadja, [285], [286], [292], [293]
- Kukata Tribe, [4], [32], [81], [82], [87], [184], [200], [205], [236], [241], [242], [248], [255], [288], [296], [318], [361], [362]
- “kukerra,” playing stick, [82], [83]
- Kumara marriage group, [220]
- Kunapippi, a mythical witch, [271]
- Kurdaitja, an evil creature, [71], [72]
- “kurreke tata,” the plover, [70], [265], [386]
- “kutturu,” fighting stick, practice, [87];
- duels, [165-168];
- embodied in head-gear, [280]
- Kuyanni Tribe, [4], [362]
- “Kwatje,” water, ceremonies, [274]
- “Kwatje purra,” magic water stick, [264]
- L
- lachrymal bone, [25]
- lactation, artificial, [20]
- “ladjia,” or yam tjuringa, [280 et seq.], [337];
- design of, [347]
- Lake Eyre, [50]
- lances, [193]
- “langa langa,” a shell knife used for “cutting the shadow,” [175]
- “langu,” native pear, [152]
- language, [xii], [386-405]
- lanugo, [46], [49]
- La Perouse, [107]
- Larrekiya Tribe, [4], [62], [77], [111], [130], [131], [139], [142], [163], [164], [170], [196], [201], [202], [205], [207], [208], [210], [230], [249], [252], [332], [374], [379], [384]
- legs, [14]
- Lemuria, [55], [56]
- lerp manna, [147]
- leucoderma, [43]
- licentiousness, [224], [254]
- “lionila,” a club, [170]
- lipomas, [6]
- lips, [31]
- living skeletons, [21]
- lizards, [126];
- designs of, [334], [335]
- lobulus, piercing of, [30]
- log rafts, [158-160]
- “lorngai,” feather wig, [50]
- lumbo-sacral curve, [9]
- “lurra,” a lipoma, [6]
- M
- MacDonnell Ranges, [50], [92], [127], [146], [153], [155], [218], [226], [285], [291], [341], [362], [364], [405]
- Maiyarra’s conception, [61];
- accouchement, [63]
- Malay bêche-de-mer fishers, [57]
- manna, [147]
- mastoid process, [30]
- “marimba,” wallaby bone used for loosening a tooth, [236]
- marine molluscs, [121], [122]
- marital relationships between man and woman, [222], [223]
- marriage systems, [218], [219], [220], [221];
- allotment of infant, [221], [222]
- “marriwirri,” wooden sword, [170]
- Marsdenia Leichhardti, native pear, [152]
- Marsilea quadrifolia, nardoo, [150]
- mastoid process, [29]
- maternity, peculiar belief concerning, [62]
- medicine man, [179-182], [264], [265], [273], [294];
- attends council meeting, [225], [226];
- treating a patient, [181], [182]
- meeting an Australian tribe, [3]
- Melophorus inflatus, honey ant, [146]
- Melville Islanders, [77], [93], [144], [159], [161], [163], [192], [207], [238], [249], [309], [310], [323], [373], [380]
- “memba,” a feather wig, [50]
- mental foramen, [29]
- Menuaitja, marriage group, [220]
- “merliadda,” fire walking, [236]
- migrations of early man, [56]
- “mika,” a bark food carrier, [92]
- mika operation, [245-249]
- milk squirted at strangers, [228]
- milk and charcoal rubbed over newly-born child, [65]
- Milky Way, [332], [349], [350]
- Milk-bush, [387]
- mimicry, powers of, [371]
- “mingul,” pitjuri, [155]
- Minning Tribe, [4], [170], [218], [220], [260], [270], [334]
- “miri,” hand mill-stone, [361]
- modesty, sense of, [107]
- “moiranje,” a pubic tassel, [114]
- molars, [32]
- Mollinya ceremony, [250]
- Mongarrapungja, head of the Kukadja, [292], [293]
- Mongoloid migration, [56], [59]
- moon legends, [267-269]
- moon man, [267], [268]
- monkeys, appreciation of, by aborigines, [89], [90]
- mopoke, [386]
- “moru” (Tephrosia), a fish poison, [139]
- mothers charged with callousness, [65]
- mourning, customs of, [208-215];
- second period of, [214]
- mourning ceremony, comic imitation of, [380]
- mouth, [31-33]
- mud-balling, [75]
- mud slides, [73], [74]
- mulga apple, [152]
- Mulluk Mulluk Tribe, [4], [25], [112], [197], [206], [365], [404]
- mummies, [208]
- munyeroo, [149], [150]
- Muramura, the Supreme Number, [271]
- Murchison district, type of spear-thrower of, [200]
- Musgrave Ranges, [48], [97], [102], [108], [109], [127], [143], [146], [151], [155], [329], [332], [360]
- music and dance, [371-385]
- music sticks, [374], [375], [379], [380]
- mussel (Unio), [121];
- knife used for “cutting the shadow,” [175]
- mutilations, after return of circumcision candidate, [243];
- after mika operation, [248];
- amputation of finger joints, [253], [254];
- at mourning ceremonies, [209], [210], [211], [213];
- head biting, [245];
- of female, [255], [256];
- upon receipt of sad news, [210]
- N
- Nangali, a mythical water-man, [264]
- “nangarri,” the medicine man, [179], [180], [181], [182], [264], [265], [273], [294];
- treating a patient, [181], [182]
- nardoo, [150]
- Narrinyerri Tribe, [4], [95], [169], [200], [214], [296]
- naso-labial folds, [27]
- native pear (Marsdenia) design, [351], [353]
- native well, [96]
- Nature worship, [257]
- “naualla,” cicatrices, [238]
- navigation, [158-164]
- Neanderthal skeleton, [15], [23], [24], [25]
- Needlebush (Hakea lorea), [98], [111]
- negative chin, [29]
- negative words, [398]
- Negroid, [15], [28], [29], [34], [56], [59]
- newly-born infant, treatment of, [64], [65]
- “ngadanji,” tjuringa of phallic significance, [xi]
- Ngadeja marriage group, [220]
- Ngameni Tribe, [xiv], [4], [82], [155], [205], [237], [361], [362]
- Ngardaddi, a mythical fire thief, [261], [262]
- “ngongu nerbai,” a stone spear-head, [370]
- “nimmerima,” an emu-spear, [139]
- nomenclature, defining the individual, [216-218];
- connected with marriage system, [218], [219]
- Northern Territory tribes, [76], [108], [112], [115], [116], [126], [128], [129], [130], [131], [132], [138], [142], [151], [174], [190], [195], [196], [197], [200], [201], [202], [208], [209], [211], [237], [253], [286], [313], [320], [323], [336], [349], [365], [367], [373], [374], [379], [405]
- Northern Kimberleys tribes, [77], [82], [86], [92], [95], [97], [109], [116], [125], [131], [139], [151], [173], [195], [200], [206], [208], [214], [232], [244], [249], [256], [284], [288], [311], [313], [330], [340], [343], [360], [367]
- nose, [26-28];
- boring of septum, [230], [231]
- nuclei, stone, [364]
- Nullarbor Plains tribes, [169], [251]
- numerals, [396], [397]
- Nyege, Supreme Spirit, [295]
- Nymphaea stellata, blue water lily, [151]
- O
- Obesity, [6]
- occipital bone, [39]
- ochre drawings, at ceremonials, [325], [326];
- on bark, [323];
- on the body, [324], [325], [326];
- on weapons, [323], [324]
- ochre, smeared over corpse, [208];
- over emissaries at initiation, [254];
- over infant, [65];
- over initiate in tooth-rapping ceremony, [234];
- over initiate in circumcision ceremony, [241];
- over sacred stone, [291];
- preparation of for barter, [113], [318];
- preparation as a pigment, [318], [319]
- ointments, [115]
- “oladda,” bark food-carrier, [65]
- “omelette” of emu egg, [125], [126]
- Ooldea, [48]
- operating knife, [242], [364], [365]
- opossums, carried on the head, [88];
- hunting of, [140], [141];
- suckled by gin, [91]
- orbita, [25], [26]
- orders of the day, [91]
- “oridja,” truffle, [151]
- origin of aboriginal, [52]
- orthognathism, [29]
- os inca, [35]
- outriggers, [164]
- oven-stones, [360], [361]
- P
- paddles, [163]
- Pandanus cider, [153], [154]
- Panunga marriage group, [220]
- “parapara,” nardoo, [150]
- parietal bone, [35]
- “parli,” the north-western form of wanningi, [356]
- Parnkalla Tribe, [4], [199]
- patting the chest, a form of salutation, [3]
- “päuya,” native pear, [152]
- pearl shell coverings, [115], [313], [355]
- peroneus muscle, [12]
- perspective, generally absent in drawings, [334], [338], [339]
- pets kept in camp, [88]
- “peturr,” pitjuri, [155]
- phallic worship, [x], [xi], [282-292]
- phallus, [249], [283-292];
- water producing, [264]
- philosophical instincts, [116], [117]
- Pidunga Tribe, [4], [317]
- pigmentation of skin, [41-43], [59]
- pitch, changing of, while rendering a song, [376], [377]
- pitchi, bark food-carrier, [92]
- Pithecanthropus, [15], [55]
- pitjuri, [113], [139], [155], [156], [157]
- piturine, [157]
- placenta, [64]
- platform burial, [207], [208]
- platycnemia, [15]
- platypus design, [304], [306]
- playing “father and mother,” [79]
- playing stick, [82]
- Pleistocene gravels, [53]
- plover, the “rainmaker,” [70], [265];
- imitating call of stone plover, [379];
- origin of its name, [386]
- plurality, expression of, [400]
- “pointing” the bone, [174-178]
- Ponga Ponga Tribe, [4], [88], [112], [184], [197], [198], [365]
- Port George IV, [65], [94], [238], [283], [310]
- Port Hedland carvings, [299-303], [329]
- Port Jackson carvings, [299], [300]
- portulaca, [147]
- positive chin, [29]
- “pot-belly,” [21]
- pounders, stone, [360]
- pregnancy, artificial interference with, [64]
- “prelja,” manna, [147]
- premolars, [33]
- prepuse, resection of, [242]
- “primitive snout,” [27]
- prognathism, [28]
- pronouns, [401-403]
- prostitutes, [223]
- pubic coverings, [114], [115], [243], [249], [313]
- “puli,” stone used in tooth-rapping ceremony, [236]
- Pultara marriage group, [220]
- “purra,” phallus, [287]
- Purula marriage group, [220]
- “putta ildurra,” stone dagger, [172]
- Psylla, [147]
- Q
- Queensland, [50], [53], [80], [84], [94], [102], [104], [124], [131], [137], [155], [163], [190], [208], [299], [308], [316], [362]
- R
- radius selected for “bone,” [215]
- rafts, [158-160]
- rainmakers, [264], [265]
- “rattappa,” foetal elements, [287], [291]
- rattles, boab nuts, sea shells, and gum leaves, [374]
- red-hot coal placed on forearm, [87], [88]
- reed spear, [171], [194]
- religious ideas, [257-296]
- repetition of action, verbally expressed, [397], [398]
- retouche, [370]
- rhinal fissure, [39]
- rhythm, [372], [377], [383]
- River Murray Tribes, [66], [100], [102], [108], [114], [121], [160], [169], [192], [195], [200], [208], [213], [310], [313], [365], [367], [373]
- rivers, extinct in Australia, [59]
- rock carvings, [299-308]
- rock shelter, [322]
- Roebuck Bay, [170]
- Roper River Tribe, [153], [197], [249], [270], [287]
- Roth, Dr. Walter, [48], [80], [84]
- Rukkutta, a tribal ancestor, [291]
- S
- sacral bone, [9]
- sacred ceremonies, [273 et seq.];
- ceremonial object (“tjilbakuta”), [276], [278], [280];
- emu tjuringa, [274 et seq.];
- “kwatje” tjuringa, [274]
- sacred ground of tjuringa, [272], [273]
- sacred ground drawing, “Etominja,” [282]
- sacred pole, “Djundagalla,” [248], [249];
- stored in hut, [266]
- sagittal suture, [35]
- Salsola kali, [76]
- salutations, [105], [106], [404]
- Sarcostemma, [387]
- saw fish, [131]
- scars (tribal), [236-238]
- scaphocephaly, [34], [35]
- Schweinfurth, Prof. G., [306]
- Scleroderma, [152]
- scrapers, stone, [363-367];
- slate, [366]
- sepulchral caves, [214]
- sex worship, [257], [282], [289-292]
- shell-fish, [122]
- shelters, [101-105]
- Sherait Tribe, [130], [365]
- shield, [173], [188]
- ship-of-war, corrobboree of, [382], [383]
- shoulder-blade, [16]
- sibilant sounds, [402]
- sign language, [388-394]
- singing, ensemble, [384];
- the words of a conversation, [385]
- sitting, methods of, [106]
- skeins of fur-string used during dance, [373]
- skeleton of aboriginal, [5-16], [21-37]
- skeleton, imitation of, in body decoration, [325]
- skin, colour of, [40-45]
- skin drums, [373], [374]
- skin water bags, [94], [95]
- skins used by southern tribes, [100], [114]
- skipping, [83]
- skull, [34 et seq.];
- capacity of, [37]
- sky-shying act, [238], [239]
- sleep, order during, [101];
- position during, [105]
- Smith, Dr. Ramsay, [15], [16], [34]
- Smith, Dr. S. A., [53], [54]
- smoking ceremony, [253]
- snails, [121]
- snakes, [126];
- mythical, [269]
- songs, [377-385];
- imitating natural call-notes, [377 et seq.]
- Spartan principles, [87]
- spears, [190-198];
- carefully stored, [112], [113];
- heavy, [172], [173];
- poisoned, [198];
- reed, [171], [194], [195];
- stone-bladed, [367];
- stone-headed, [196];
- types figured, [191];
- uses of, [190]
- spear-head, stone, [367-370];
- method of making, [368-370]
- spear-throwers, [199-202]
- spine, curvature of, [7];
- effect of upright attitude upon, [8];
- effect of tree-climbing upon, [13];
- proportional lengths of vertebræ and cartilaginous discs, [8];
- smallness of vertebræ, [9]
- Spinifex, [76]
- spokeshave, stone, [365]
- squamous portion of temporal bone, [36]
- still-born children, [205]
- Stirling, Dr. E. C., [15]
- Stokes, Lort, [105]
- stone age in Australia, [58], [59], [359]
- stone-covered huts, [103]
- stone implements, [359-370]
- Strehlow, Rev. Carl, [x]
- subincision, [245-249];
- sensual excitement at, [248]
- sulcus lunatus, [38]
- Sunday Islanders, [65], [66], [78], [82], [84], [89], [93], [117], [176], [295], [331], [355], [368], [397], [398], [401], [403], [404]
- sun-men, [267]
- sun worship, [265-267]
- superlative expressions, [399]
- Supreme Spirit, [xi], [400]
- T
- “takul,” mulga apple, [152]
- Talgai skull, [33], [53]
- Talleri, the eternal home of all spirits, [296]
- “taralje,” a spear-thrower, [200]
- Tasmania, separated from the mainland, [119]
- Tasmanians, [14], [15], [16], [28], [31], [34], [35], [37], [49]
- “tchewa,” flat stone of hand-mill, [361]
- “tdela,” head-dress, [280]
- Tecoma Australis, [195], [196]
- teeth, [31]
- temperament, [229]
- Tennants Creek, calvarium, [53];
- the home of Kukadja men, [285]
- Tephrosia, a poison plant, [139]
- terminal syllables, [398], [399]
- the day’s march, [91-99]
- Therapon, drawing of, [328]
- thigh bone, [14], [15]
- third trochanter, [15]
- thorns, removal of in camp, [117], [118]
- throwing competition, [78]
- thunder, [387]
- tibialis posticus muscle, [16]
- time, beating of, [372], [373];
- fixing of, [395];
- representation of, [351]
- “tip-cat,” [78]
- “tjilbakuta,” a sacred ceremonial object, [276], [278], [280]
- “tjilba-purra,” a phallus, embodied in head-gear, [287];
- Altjerra-Knaninja drawing, [327]
- Tjingali Tribe, [4], [308]
- “tjulu,” a stone operating knife, [242]
- tjuringa, [217], [311];
- Altjerra-Kutta, [291];
- acting as a talisman, [273];
- carried by initiation emissaries, [242];
- carved stone, [309];
- caterpillar, [350], [352], [353];
- ceremonies, [274 et seq.];
- in the sky, [334];
- inspirited by a deity, [270];
- kangaroo, [349], [352];
- mythical origin of Kunapippi, [271];
- native pear, [351], [353];
- of sun ceremony, [265], [266];
- produced at female initiation ceremony, [255];
- stored in sacred caves, [272], [343];
- witchedy grub, [348];
- yam pattern, [337]
- Tjurrega marriage group, [220]
- “tjutanga,” tooth-rapping rod, [236]
- “toki,” a waterlily, [151]
- tomahawks, stone, [362], [363]
- Tomkinson Ranges, [48], [67], [114], [143], [227]
- tooth-ache, [32]
- tooth pick, [32]
- tooth-pointed spear-thrower, [201]
- tooth-rapping ceremonies, [231-236];
- “antjuarra,” [235], [236];
- gum forced back with finger nail, [235];
- knocking the tooth out, [235]
- tops, [83]
- “totem,” [xi], [219], [226], [269], [270], [271], [272], [273], [279], [280], [282], [285], [339], [340], [341], [351], [353]
- “totem,” ancestors, [274];
- ceremonies, [274];
- food and hunting restrictions, [273]
- “totemic” designs, [339-343], [346], [351], [352], [353]
- Toxotes, drawing of, [328]
- toys, [79 et seq.]
- toy, boomerang, [82];
- dart, [82];
- raft, [82];
- spears, [81], [194];
- weapons, [80], [81]
- tracks, drawn in sand, [71-73];
- representations of, [347-349]
- tree-climbing, [12-14], [123], [124];
- competitions in, [75], [76]
- tree-felling by fire, [124], [141]
- Triassic period, [56]
- tribal organizations, [216-224]
- tribal husbands, [224]
- tribal law, [226]
- Trigonia in Australia, [58], [59]
- truffle (Scleroderma), [151], [152]
- trumpets, bamboo, [375], [376], [379]
- tubera frontalia, [35]
- Tukura, a great Spirit, [295], [296], [356]
- Tukurata, the Supreme Number, [271]
- Tukutita, the Supreme Number, [271]
- “turapitti,” artificial fire-flies, [376]
- Turbo undulata, [122]
- turtle, eggs, [126];
- hunting, [132], [133], [160]
- turtle designs, [335], [346]
- Tutrarre, a mythical dog, [267]
- twins, [63], [64]
- U
- Ullbönnalenna water hole, [97]
- “ullyinga,” witchedy hook, [125]
- Ulparidja group, [48]
- umbilical cord, treatment of, [64]
- Unio, [121]
- Unio pictorum, [319]
- upright attitude, see [spine], [7 et seq.]
- urethrotomia, [245-249]
- “utnguringita” or witchedy grub drawings, [341-343]
- u-within-u designs, [351], [352], [353]
- V
- Veddahs, [25], [58]
- vegetable diet, [148-152]
- vegetable down, [275], [276]
- venesection, [275]
- verbs, conjugations of, [400], [401]
- vermin-proof platform larders, [105]
- Victoria River tribes, [62], [75], [76], [77], [103], [105], [128], [146], [211], [243], [253], [266], [285], [292], [319], [321], [323], [325], [326], [332], [336], [367], [373], [375]
- Victorian basalts, human bones beneath, [54]
- vocal productions, [376 et seq.]
- W
- waddies, [168 et seq.]
- “wadua,” white vegetable-down, [276]
- “wagal-wagal,” a tjuringa, [270]
- walking, [12];
- in single file, [118]
- wallaby, hunting of, [141]
- “waketo,” munyeroo, [150]
- “wanjerra,” red vegetable down, [276]
- “wanna,” yam sticks, [148]
- wanningi, [240], [244], [356], [357]
- Waraka, a spirit father, [287]
- war council, [184]
- warfare, [183-189]
- “warrakinna,” pitjuri, [155]
- Warramunga Tribe, [4], [92]
- Warrupu, a Minning ancestor, [260]
- Warrida-jinna (eagle hawk’s claw), Southern Cross, [349]
- Warrnambool footprints, [54]
- water, in Currajong, Bloodwood and Needlebush, [98];
- supplies guarded against pollution, [97];
- transported by women, [91], [92]
- water carriers, [92-95]
- water ceremonies, [274]
- water legend, [263], [264]
- water mallee, Eucalyptus dumosa, [98]
- water men, “atoa kwatje,” [264], [265]
- water lily tubers, [151]
- water supplies, [96], [97]
- weaning of children, [66]
- Wellington caves, [54]
- Wenoinn, a Minning ancestor, [260]
- white ants added to acacia flour, [150], [151]
- “white blackfellow,” [42]
- Wickham River, [248]
- “widida,” native truffle, [151]
- widow, [212-214];
- claimed by deceased husband’s brother, [213];
- cutting off of hair, [213];
- re-opening scalp wound, [213];
- skull caps of gypsum, [213]
- “wilpa,” a wallaby, [141]
- “winudtharra,” honey ant, [147]
- Winyeru, initiation ceremony, [242], [248]
- “wirrauwa,” a bark bucket, [94]
- Wirrewarra, the eternal home of all Spirits, [296]
- witchedy grub, [122], [123], [124], [125];
- sacred drawings of, [341-343];
- “totemic” designs, [351-352]
- witchedy hook, [124], [125]
- Wogait Tribe, [4], [62], [83], [109], [116], [130], [131], [139], [170], [196], [197], [198], [201], [208], [243], [244], [332], [365], [374], [379]
- woman, corrobboree of, [383]
- wombat hunt, [141]
- women, the recognized carriers, [112]
- Womma, the Milky Way, [350]
- wommera, spear-thrower, [180], [199-202]
- Wongapitcha Tribe, [3], [4], [47], [48], [67], [92], [95], [111], [114], [121], [122], [147], [151], [152], [153], [155], [184], [200], [205], [218], [235], [236], [242], [255], [259], [349], [361], [396], [398]
- Wongkanguru Tribe, [4], [83], [121], [155], [361], [362]
- Woods, Rev. Tenison, [43]
- Wordaman Tribe, [4], [201], [248]
- words derived from natural phenomena, [386], [387];
- imitating natural sounds, [386]
- Worma Kadiabba, a mythical snake’s head, [269]
- Wormian bones, [35]
- Worora Tribe, [4], [94], [116], [176], [238], [310], [321], [343], [361], [369]
- “Wubbi, wubbi, wubbi, wau!”, the voice of the bull-roarer, [241], [242]
- Wulna Tribe, [196]
- X
- Xanthorrhœa, grass tree, used in emu hunting, [140];
- flower stalk used for spear shaft, [195]
- Y
- yam ceremony, [280]
- yams, [151]
- yam stick, [148]
- yam tjuringa, [280 et seq.], [337], [347]
- Yantowannta Tribe, [xiv], [4], [50], [82], [83], [92], [114], [121], [155], [169], [205], [207], [213], [237]
- Yarrakinna, ochre mine near Parachilna, [316]
- “yarralyi,” beetles supposed to possess ecbolic principles, [64]
- Yauroworka Tribe, [xiv], [4], [103]
- “yeapatja,” or caterpillar tjuringa, [352], [353]
- yelka, [148], [149];
- ceremonial drawing of, [327]
- “yerumba,” a honey ant, [147]
- Yirrerri, neck of emu in the sky, [334]
- Yunta rock carvings, [306-308]
- Z
- Zamia, cicatrices in imitation of, [238];
- in Australia, [58]
- zygomatic arch, [30]
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