[307] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 464; id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 599 sqq.; W. E. Roth, Ethnological Studies, p. 162, § 283. In North-Western Queensland the blood may be drawn for this purpose from any healthy man, not necessarily from a kinsman.
[308] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 380.
[309] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 461 sq.; id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 560, 562, 598.
[310] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 251, 463; id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 352, 355.
[311] W. E. Roth, Ethnological Studies, p. 174, § 305.
[312] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 250 sq. Among the northern Arunta the foreskin is buried, along with the blood, in a hole (ib. p. 268).
[313] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 667.
[314] E. Clement, “Ethnographical Notes on the Western Australian Aborigines,” Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, xvi. (1904) p. 11. Among the western coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia the foreskin is held against the bellies of those who have been present at the operation, then it is placed in a bag which the operator wears round his neck till the wound has healed, when he throws it into the fire. See H. Basedow, Anthropological Notes on the Western Coastal Tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia, p. 12 (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide).
[315] B. H. Purcell, “Rites and Customs of the Australian Aborigines,” Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, p. (287) (Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xxv. 1893). Cloniny is perhaps a misprint for Cloncurry.
[316] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 360 sq., 599. Compare id., Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 257.