[297] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 310.

[298] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 309 sq.

[299] See below, pp. [162]–164.

[300] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia (London, 1904), p. 798.

[301] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 287 sq.

[302] With what follows compare my article “The Origin of Circumcision,” The Independent Review, November 1904, pp. 204 sqq.; Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 181–184.

[303] F. Bonney, “On some Customs of the Aborigines of the River Darling, New South Wales,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xiii. (1884) pp. 134 sq. Compare J. Fraser, “The Aborigines of New South Wales,” Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, xvi. (1882) pp. 229, 231; A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 451, 465.

[304] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 507, 509 sq.

[305] Mr. Bussel in Sir G. Grey’s Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia (London, 1841), ii. 330.

[306] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 382, 461; id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 598.