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 341:[ (return) ]

C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. p. 610.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. p. 611.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 616 sq.

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C. G. Seligmann. op. cit. p. 611.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 618 sq.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 613 sq.

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The Rev. J. T. Field of Tubetube (Slade Island), quoted by George Brown, D.D., Melanesians and Polynesians (London, 1910), pp. 442 sq.

Footnote 348:[ (return) ]

Rev. J. T. Field, op. cit. pp. 443 sq.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 629-631. Dr. Seligmann seems to think that the custom is at present dictated by courtesy and a reluctance to grieve the relatives of the deceased; but the original motive can hardly have been any other than a fear of the ghost.

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C. G. Seligmann, op. cit. pp. 631 sq.