The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) / The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

by James George Frazer

Footnote 717:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 55.

Footnote 718:[ (return) ]

Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji, pp. xx., xxi. sq.; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 247; B. Seeman, Viti (Cambridge, 1862), p. 401.

Footnote 719:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 55 sq. The writer witnessed what he calls the ceremony of consecration in the case of a young man of the highest rank in Somosomo and he has described what he saw. In this case a special hut was not built for the manslayer, and he was allowed to pass the nights in the temple of the war god.

Footnote 720:[ (return) ]

See above, pp. 205 sq., 229 sq., 258, 279 sq., 323, 396, 415.

Footnote 721:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 55.

Footnote 722:[ (return) ]

Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 98, 99 sq. Compare Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji, p. 163: "A person who has defiled himself by touching a corpse is called yambo, and is not allowed to touch food with his hands for several days." The custom as to a surviving widow is mentioned by Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 198.

Footnote 723:[ (return) ]

Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji, p. 167.

Footnote 724:[ (return) ]

Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 101; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 197 sq.; Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji, p. 168; Basil Thomson, The Fijian, p. 375.

Footnote 725:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 197, 198.

Footnote 726:[ (return) ]

Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 99.