[71.1] See above, pp. [46]-[54].
[72.1] James Dawson, Australian Aborigines (Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, 1881), p. 28.
[73.1] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia (London, 1904), pp. 222-224.
[74.1] Walter E. Roth, Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (Brisbane and London, 1897), p. 181.
[74.2] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 264, 266.
[74.3] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 246 sq.
[74.4] Mrs. Daisy M. Bates, “The Marriage Laws and some Customs of the West Australian Aborigines,” Victorian Geographical Journal, xxiii.-xxiv. (1905-1906) p. 42. The statement in the text was made by a settler who had lived in the Tableland district, inland from Roeburne, for twenty years.
[75.1] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 208. Similarly among tribes on the Hunter River “a man is not permitted to speak to his wife’s mother, but can do so through a third party. In former days it was death to speak to her, but now a man doing so is only severely reprimanded and has to leave the camp for a certain time” (A. W. Howitt, op. cit. p. 267).
[75.2] See for example (Sir) E. B. Tylor, “On a method of investigating the Development of Institutions,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xviii. (1889) pp. 246-248; Salomon Reinach, “Le Gendre et la Belle-Mère,” L’Anthropologie, xxii. (1911) pp. 649-662; id., Cultes, Mythes et Religions, iv. (Paris, 1912) pp. 130-147.
[75.3] In Totemism and Exogamy (Index, s.vv. “Avoidance” and “Mother-in-law”) will be found a collection of examples. In what follows I abstain for the most part from citing instances which have been adduced by me before.