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 187:[ (return) ]

Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 628.

Footnote 188:[ (return) ]

As to the place occupied by the Pleiades in primitive calendars, see Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, i. 309-319.

Footnote 189:[ (return) ]

A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 439 sq.

Footnote 190:[ (return) ]

See Totemism and Exogamy, i. 314 sqq.

Footnote 191:[ (return) ]

J. Dawson, Australian Aborigines, p. 51. A man of the Ta-ta-thi tribe in New South Wales informed Mr. A. L. P. Cameron that the natives believed in a pit of fire where bad men were roasted after death. This reported belief, resting apparently on the testimony of a single informant, may without doubt be ascribed to the influence of Christian teaching. See A. L. P. Cameron, "Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xiv. (1885) pp. 364 sq.

Footnote 192:[ (return) ]

J. Dawson, Australian Aborigines, p. 49.

Footnote 193:[ (return) ]

A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 448.

Footnote 194:[ (return) ]

A. W. Howitt, op. cit.. p. 449. Compare E. M. Curr, The Australian Race, i. 87: "The object sought in tying up the remains of the dead is to prevent the deceased from escaping from the tomb and frightening or injuring the survivors."

Footnote 195:[ (return) ]

A. W. Howitt, op. cit. p. 451.

Footnote 196:[ (return) ]

A. W. Howitt, op. cit. p. 467.