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 311:[ (return) ]

See below, pp. 242, 256, 261 sq., 291.

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A. C. Haddon, Headhunters, Black, White, and Brown (London, 1901), pp. 249 sq. As to the Motu and their Melanesian or Polynesian affinities, see Rev. W. Y. Turner, "The Ethnology of the Motu," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vii. (1878) pp. 470 sqq.

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Rev. J. Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea (London, 1887), pp. 168-170. Compare Rev. W. Y. Turner, "The Ethnology of the Motu," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vii. (1878) pp. 484 sqq.; Rev. W. G. Lawes, "Ethnological Notes on the Motu, Koitapu and Koiari Tribes of New Guinea," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, viii. (1879) pp. 370 sq.

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A. C. Haddon, Headhunters, Black, White, and Brown, pp. 249 sq.; C. G. Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, pp. 16, 41. As to the Koita (or Koitapu) and the Motu, see further the Rev. W. Y. Turner, "The Ethnology of the Motu," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vii. (1878) pp. 470 sqq.; Rev. W. G. Lawes, "Ethnological Notes on the Motu, Koitapu and Koiari Tribes of New Guinea," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, viii. (1879) pp. 369 sq.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 189-191.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 185 sq.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. p. 192.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 190-192. As to the desertion of the house after death, see id., pp. 89 sq.

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The territory of the Roro-speaking tribes extends from Kevori, east of Waimatuma (Cape Possession), to Hiziu in the neighbourhood of Galley Reach. Inland of these tribes lies a region called by them Mekeo, which is inhabited by two closely related tribes, the Biofa and Vee. Off the coast lies Yule Island, which is commonly called Roro. See C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. p. 195.

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V. Jouet, La Société des Missionaires du Sacré Cœur dans les Vicariats Apostoliques de la Mélanésie et de la Micronésie (Issoudun, 1887), p. 30; Father Guis, "Les Canaques: Mort-deuil," Missions Catholiques, xxxiv. (1902) pp. 186, 200.