[317] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 256 sq.
[318] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 391.
[319] Lieut.-Colonel D. Collins, Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Second Edition (London, 1804), p. 366.
[320] D. Collins, op. cit. p. 363.
[321] G. Turner, Samoa, p. 94; compare W. T. Pritchard, “Notes on certain Anthropological Matters respecting the South Sea Islanders (the Samoans),” Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London, i. (1863–4), pp. 324–326.
[322] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 367, 368, 599.
[323] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 9, 368, 552, 553, 554 sq. See further E. Palmer, “On Plants used by the Natives of North Queensland,” Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1883, xvii. 101. The seeds of the splendid pink water-lily (the sacred lotus) are also eaten by the natives of North Queensland. The plant grows in lagoons on the coast. See E. Palmer, loc. cit.
[324] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 372.
[325] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 353 sq. Some of the dwarf tribes of the Gaboon, who practise circumcision, place the severed foreskins in the trunks of a species of nut-tree (Kula edulis), which seems to be their totem; for the tree is said to have a certain sanctity for them, and some groups take their name from it, being called A-Kula, “the people of the nut-tree.” They eat the nuts, and have a special ceremony at the gathering of the first nuts of the season. See Mgr. Le Roy, “Les Pygmées,” Missions Catholiques, xxix. (1897) pp. 222 sq., 237.
[326] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 341.