Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia

by Northcote Whitridge Thomas

[185] p. 195.

[186] pp. 170, 277.

[187] Also among the Kurnandaburi, the Wonkamira, etc. Journ. Anthr. Inst. XX, 62. General circumcision was a remedy in Fiji when the chief was ill.

[188] And among the Dieri, according to Gason, Journ. Anthr. Inst. XX, 87.

[189] p. 219.

[190] pp. 205, 193. J. A. I. XII, 36.

[191] p. 245.

[192] p. 269.

[193] He also omits to mention the Muni ceremony, described in Journ. Anthr. Inst. XX, 62. If general licence is of magical efficacy in cases of sickness, it can hardly be argued that general licence at marriage has not, as Mr Crawley argues, a magical significance.

[194] p. 245.