need-fire kindled as a safeguard against, x. 284 sqq., 344
Vancouver Island, the Lkungen Indians of, i. 145;
wind-stones in, i. 322;
the Ahts of, vi. 139 n. 1, x. 43;
the Songish or Lkungen tribe of, viii. 254
Vanua Lava, in the Banks Islands, avoidance of wife's mother at, iii. 85
Vapour thought to be exhaled by lying-in women and hunters, iii. 152, 206, 213;
supposed, of blood and corpses, iii. 210 sq.;
supposed to be produced by the violation of a taboo, iii. 212
Vapour bath taken by girls at puberty, x. 40