sanctity of the heads of chiefs and others in, iii. 254 sqq.;
names of chiefs tabooed in, iii. 381;
belief as to falling stars in, iv. 67;
remarkable rule of succession in, iv. 190;
prevalence of infanticide in, iv. 191, 196;
the beginning of the year marked by the rising of the Pleiades throughout, vii. 313;
fear of demons among the natives of, ix. 80 sq.
Polynesian chiefs sacred, iii. 136
—— mothers, their way of infusing a divine spirit into their unborn babes, iii. 69
—— myth of the separation of earth and sky, v. 283