Part 2 — INDEX

Aban Abit, 335, 337, 369

Acolytes, Papuan, 256

Adzes, stone, still used in canoe making, 220;

in Mekeo, 272;

Borneo, 368-70

Afu (taboo in Mekeo), 270, 271

Afu symbol at Inawi, 271

Agi, 244, 245

Agricultural ceremonies, 106

charms, Torres Straits, 67, 86, 87, 107, 140;

New Guinea, 104-7, 202, 205

Agriculturists, 212, 262, 323

Agu, turtle trophy, 154-6

Alexis, Brother, 252, 266, 270, 271, 276

Alluvium, 212, 319

Alukune, 221

Aman (omen animals), 384

Amentum, 201

Andersen, Neil, 4-8

Angabunga River, 261

Anglo-Saxon overlord, 328, 329

Anthreptes, 384, 385, 391

Arachnothera, 384, 385, 390

Archbishop Navarre, 185, 203, 252, 266

Arctogale, 384-6

Areca nut (betel), 217

Ari, chief of Murray Island, 8, 9, 20, 28, 29, 57, 72, 74

Ari (personal totem) at Cape York, 193, 194

Arrow-points, making with a boar’s tusk, 269

Astrolabe Range, 239

Atsiamakara village, 242

Augŭd (totem), 132

Au kosker (big women shrine), 69

Australian aspect of vegetation, 239

colour names, 24

dance, 193

languages, 30

medicine-man, 90

Australians, Cape York, 190-4

Baby, paying for, 175

Balfour, Henry, 225

Baling Go (the thunder god), 369

Baling Go’s eyeball, 371

front tooth, 370

toe-nails, 369

Ballantine, Hon. D., 205, 206, 236, 241, 244-6, 248, 251

Balli Atap, 360

Balli Flaki, offering to, 384, 409

Balli Penyalong (god of child-naming), 354

Balli Taun (god of harvest), 373

Balungan (river dragon), 373

Bamboo knife, 115

Bampfylde, Hon. C. A., 279, 280

Barawan, 321, 343

house, 334, 336

Bark belts, 266

Bark-cloth shawl, 259

Barker, Dr. A. J. C., 279

Barking deer, 385

Bartlett, E., 283

Batang Kayans, 364, 365, 401, 403, 412, 413

Batu Blah, 306, 321

Beardmore, E., 111, 114

Bêche-de-mer, 2, 3

Beehive house in Murray Island, 58

Bees, 383, 391

Beheading knife, 115

Berantu ceremony, 306-11

Berenicornis, 384, 385, 388

Betel, 217

Biofa, 261

Bird dances, Sĕbop, 358;

Torres Straits, 49, 114, 189

Birding, 392

Blood-letting, 222, 223

Boar’s-tusk knife, 243, 269

Boars’ tusks, abnormally curved, 370

Boat races, 280, 401, 409

Boigu, the island of spirits, 90

Bok River, 333

Bomai, 46, 47, 80, 180

Brass-workers, 356

Broad-headed natives, Sarawak, 321;

Torres Straits, 119, 120

Borepada village, 204

Bornean love stories, 376-80

Borneo, physical features of, 212, 348

Bouellat, Father, 274

Bow and arrow fleam, 223

Boys dressed up as Fulaari, 275

Boy-throwing, game of, 228

Brahminy kite, 388

Brother Edmond, death of, 253, 254

Bride-price, 363, 378

Bridge, sacrifice for a, 339

Brooke, Rajah Sir Charles. Cf. Rajah of Sarawak

Brooke, Rajah Sir James, 291-3

Bruce, John, 8, 9, 31-5, 77, 78, 84

Bruce, Robert, 168

Brunei, 288, 291, 300, 327

Malay, 327, 338, 341, 342

Bulaa dances, 231

village, 211, 212, 221-34

Bulan, 376

Bull-roarer, 42, 227;

in Torres Straits, 33, 107, 140, 156, 157;

in Kiwai, 104, 105;

at Cape York, 191, 192

“Bundling” in Wales, 378

Burial cave, 305

Burke, Father, 253, 268

Burns Philp, 235

Burnt village, 208, 359

Burong (omen animals), 384

Burying under houses, 262

“Bushmen,” Masingara, 111, 112

Butiong (wooden image), 333

Cainozoic rocks, 316

Cambridge Peak, 347

Canoe (Sarawak), 297

Canoe-making in New Guinea, 220

Cape York natives, 190-4

Carcineutes, 384, 385, 388

Card players (Papuan), 185

“Cat’s cradle” games, 38, 39, 175, 201

Cave of skulls, Pulu, 141-3;

Borneo, 305

Cemetery, 284, 306

Ceremony for the removal of skulls, 337, 352

Ceremony of child-naming, 353, 354

Cervulus, 384, 385

Chalmers, Mrs., 95, 128

Chalmers, Rev. James, 95-8, 104, 107-109, 128-30, 197, 203, 213, 249, 250

Chalmers, Rev. W., 385

Chapel, service in Catholic (New Guinea), 255

Charms, agricultural (New Guinea), 104-7, 202, 205;

(Torres Straits), 67, 86, 87, 107, 140

curative, 107

fishing (dugong), 133, 134, 153, 154, 202

injuring people, 106, 202, 203

Chawat (loin cloth), 283

to die in, 370

Chevrotains, 385

Character of Mabuiag people, 122

of Murray Islanders, 72

Chiefs, petty, in Sarawak, 414

Children’s toys and games, 224, 231, 274

Child-naming ceremony, 353

Chinamen, 327-9

Chinese districts, 316

Chorus songs, 324

Church at Saibai, 170;

at Mabuiag, 122

Cicatrices, 110, 113, 200

Cittocincla, 381, 384, 385, 389

Clan houses, 99, 171

Clarinet, 225

Claudetown, 297, 311, 330, 357, 371, 379, 401-13

Club houses in New Guinea, 99, 100, 208, 256, 257, 262, 268, 270

Coal in Borneo, 318

Cochard, Father, 185, 259, 268

Cockatoo feathers for dances, 234

Cockatoos, tame, 234

Coconut palm, triple crowned, 172

Coconut shrine, 67

Codrington, Rev. Dr., 44

Colour blindness, 126

vision of natives, 24, 25, 245

vocabulary, Australian, 24;

Kiwai, 24;

Torres Straits, 24

Comet, 80-2

Confederation of mountain tribes, 247

Conscientiousness of Murray Islanders, 27, 29

Constabulary, for enforcing taboo, 271

Constellations, 139, 165-8, 381

Cooking in Torres Straits, 41

Copper Maori, 41

Copra, 3

Craniology, Torres Straits, 18, 119, 120

Cotton cloths of the Iban women, 280, 285, 326

Cowling, J., 117

Crocodile-man, 171, 172

Crystal sphere, 370

Culm measures, 315

Cult of skulls, 332, 394-400

Cuscus, 110

Customs of the Ibitoes, 258

Cyclone, 79, 80, 88

Cymodocea, 151

Dalton, O. M., 372

Dam, ceremony at, 61

Dance costume, 113, 187, 214, 233, 234, 358

Dances stopped by teachers, 35, 128

Dances:

Australian, 193.

Bornean, 357, 358.

Papuan:

Babaka, 214-19;

Bulaa, 231;

Kăpăkăpă, 210;

Mabuiag, 131, 139, 140, 233;

Mawatta, 113, 114;

Muralug, 186-8;

Murray Island, 47-9, 60, 102;

Nagir, 182.

South Sea, 35;

Rotumah, 36, 53

Ceremonial: Agricultural dances, 215-19;

death dances, 139, 182;

fishing dances, 183, 184;

Malu dances, 47-9, 102;

war dances, 60, 131, 140, 186-8, 233, 358

Festive, 188, 189, 210, 231-3

Mimetic, 49, 114, 188, 189, 358

Danilkau, a funeral buffoon, 139, 140

Danish thunderbolts, 372

Dapoi River, 360

Darnley Island (Erub), 5, 12, 51, 95

Daru, 95

Dauar, 12, 17, 18, 64-8

Dauncey, Rev. H. M., 199, 201

Death of a baby, 123

of Brother Edmond, 253, 254

Decorated skull, 91, 181

Decoration, native, 332

Deer, 383-6

Delena, 199-201, 259, 260

Deshon, Hon. H. F., 284, 285

Devonian rocks, 315

Divination by means of a parang, 366

by pig’s liver, 336, 337, 354, 355, 411, 412

in Murray Island, 54-6

Divining grasshopper, 92

skull, Torres Straits, 91, 92, 182

zogo, 91

Dog killing unlucky, 335, 364

Dogs, supposed by natives to be sacrificed by the English, 339

Doiom (rain charm), 32-5, 86

“Doors,” 298, 331

“Door” tax, 294

Dorgai, 166

constellation, 166

Douglas, Hon. John, 1, 4, 20, 123, 170

Douglas, R. S., 303, 304, 330, 337, 404-6

Dowry, 363

Dyeing patterns on cloth, 326

Dragon, river, 373

Drinking customs, 311, 402, 403

Drought, 84, 86

Drum-making, 257

Drums, 231, 233;

sacred drum, 45

Drunkenness, 356

Dubu, 100, 208, 217, 234

ascended by girls, 218

Dugong, 151

charms, 133, 134, 153, 154, 202

food of, 151, 152

harpoon, 149

methods of catching, 148-54

Dukduk, in New Britain, 51

Dulit Mount, 344, 347, 348, 349

Durian, 303

Dusun, 321

Earthquake in Murray Island, 78, 79

Eastern Papuans, 199

Economic defects of a hunting existence, 265

Edible earth, 203

Edmond, Brother, 253, 254

Elevera, 235

English, A. C., 206, 210, 214, 219, 226, 234, 248

Eocene, 317

Erabo (club house), 100

Erub, 5, 12, 51, 95

Eruptive rocks of Borneo, 318

Ethnography of Sarawak, 320

Evanena, 228

Evans, Prof. E., 339

Everett, A. Hart, 318, 372

Eyesight, defects of, among natives, 24

of hill tribes, 245

Fable of the monkey and the frog, 343

Fairy darts, 373

Fanny Rapid, 377

Fauna of Mount Dulit, 348

Feasts, Murray Island, 39-41;

Mekeo, 272

Feeding skulls, 396

Fertility ceremony, 218

Figure-heads of canoes, 407

Fire, legend of origin, 108

Fire-making in New Guinea and Torres Straits, 108, 109

Fireworks, 402

First man, legend of origin of, 108

Fish, shooting with bow and arrows, 259

Fisher-folk in New Guinea, 207, 221, 260, 261

Fish, zogo, 68

Fleam, 223

Flutes, 205, 258

Food restrictions, 135, 257

Forge, 324

Frazer, Dr. J. G., 134, 135

Frigate bird, 204

Frog, fable of, 343

game, 228

Fulaari, 271, 272, 275, 276

Funeral in Murray Island, 93;

in Yule Island, 254

Gaile, 206

Games:

Borneo, mancala, 284

Papuan adults’ games: hockey, 78;

tamar, 40, 58, 59, 62;

top-spinning (kolap), 40, 41

Papuan children’s games: balancing (evanena), 228;

boy-throwing (omoro or frog), 228;

hopping, 227;

hunting kangaroo and pig, 274, 275;

imitating ceremonies, (fulaari), 275, (kwod), 180;

jumping, 227;

leap-frog, 227;

pig-a-back, 227;

revolving (maki gegelaki and rapurapu), 228;

ring games (kwaito pinupinu and mota ĕrĕmpto), 229;

round sitting games, played with the hands, (korikini), 229, (toitoi kinimali), 230, 231;

skipping, 227;

top-whipping, 272, 273

Gapu (sucker-fish), 155, 156

Garden charms, Torres Straits, 67, 86, 87, 107;

New Guinea, 104-7

Gasiri (tree houses), 248

Geigi’s fish-spear, 68

Gelam, 16

Genealogies of natives, 124

Geographical features of Borneo, 312

of British New Guinea, 207, 239-41

of Sarawak, 286, 348

Geological features of Borneo, 312, 348

of British New Guinea, 207, 239, 240

Geology of Sumatra, 315

George, Brother, 266, 267, 276

Gewe (chief of Agi), 244-6

Ghost (lamar), 89, 90

Ghost tiger, 305

Girls ascending dubu, 218;

seclusion of, in Mabuiag, 135

God of Harvest, 373

Gold in Sarawak, 315;

in Torres Straits, 4

Gomoridobo village, 234

Gope (charm), 103, 104

Gors, Mr., 205, 251, 266

Government of Sarawak, 292, 294

of Torres Straits by Queensland, 19-21

Grammar of Torres Straits languages, 29, 127

Granville, 235

Grasshopper, divining, 92

Graves, New Guinea, 112

Great houses in New Guinea, 99, 213;

in Sarawak, 298

Guilbaud, Father, 255

Guis, Father, 253, 258-60, 276, 277

Guise, R. E., 218

Gunboat, 249

H., Captain, 5, 6, 22, 80, 82, 95

Hair, 18, 119, 223, 234, 325

wavy, among Papuans, 234

Haliastur, 384, 385, 387, 390

Hammond Island, 185

Hantus (spirits), 340, 369

Hanuabada village, 235

Harpoon, 148

Harpactes, 381-5, 387-90

Haviland, G. D., 283

Hawk omen, 387, 352

Hawk-owl, 391

Head-hunters, Kiwai, 107

Head-hunting, 322, 325, 328, 339;

object of, 107

origin of, in Borneo, 397

in Sarawak, reasons for, 394

Hearing, acuity and range, 25

Heliarctos, 391

Hely, Hon. Bingham A., 95, 98, 103, 109

Hill-land of Borneo, 316

Hill tribes, colour-vision of, 245

keenness of eyesight, 245

History of Sarawak, 291, 292

Hockey in Murray Island, 78

Hoe, shell, 109

Hogeri, 244

Holiness, 67, 258

Hood Bay, 219

Peninsula, 211-34

Hooks, magical, 370, 371, 373, 396

Hopping, game, 227

Hornbill, 410

white-crested, 388

Hornbills’ feathers, 395

Hose, Dr. C., 297, 301, 303-5, 320-415

Houses:

Torres Straits, 58, 110;

Kiwai, 99, 100;

New Guinea, 204, 206, 208, 211, 213, 223, 224, 242, 243, 268, 269;

Sarawak, 298, 290, 331-3, 335

Hula, 211. Cf. Bulaa

Human heads for foundations of Kuching waterworks, 339

Human sacrifice, 339

skulls. Cf. skulls

Hunters, 265

Hunting games, 274

Huts, 110;

sleeping hut in jungle, 299

Hurricane in Torres Straits, origin of, 79, 80, 82, 87, 88

Iasa (Kiwai), 98-108

Iban (Sea Dayak), 281, 283, 301, 302, 305, 322, 324-8, 338, 341, 381-93

Ibitoe, customs of, 256-9

Inawi village, 269, 272

Indo-Javan people, 322, 327

Indonesian, 321

Ingratitude of natives, 19

Initiation ceremonies, 42;

in Murray Island, 44, 135, 140, 176, 191

Instruction of lads (Murray Island), 49, 50

Iriam Moris, 64

Ireland, stone implements used as charms in, 373

Iron, 338, 366, 395

Irupi dance, 217

Isang, 361

Isit, 344, 384, 385, 390

Islamism, 328

Jangan, 352-5, 411

Japanese in Thursday Island, 2, 3

Jar burial, 306

Jardine, Frank, 190

Javano-Hindu colonisation of Borneo, 322, 327

Javelin, miniature, 224

Jawa, 404, 406

Jesu baibua, 262

Jumping game, 227

Jungle, new, 304, 345

Jungle, old, 304, 345

Kadayans, 300, 301, 306, 321, 327, 341

Kaikai, origin of term, 39, 40

Kaivakuku, mask at Waima, 271

Kajaman, 321

Kalabit, 321, 323, 414

Kalamantan, 289, 321, 324, 327

Kalo village, 212-14, 219, 220

Kalulong Mount, 349

Kaluri, 357, 379

Kamut (string puzzles in Murray Island), 38, 39

Kanauit, 321, 284

Kangaroo drive game, 274

Kap, 188. Cf. Torres Straits dances

Kăpăkăpă village, 208, 210

Karangang, 299, 302

Kayan tattoo designs, 306

Kayans, 288, 297, 304-6, 323-5, 328, 357, 360, 364, 384, 386-93, 394, 395, 397, 401, 404, 405, 409, 414

war-path of, 297, 304

Kawit, 396. Cf. Hooks, magical.

Keapara village, 219-22

Kedaman, 362

Kelebong, 361

Kenyah drinking songs, 311

Kenyah-Kayan migration, 327

Kenyahs, 288, 302, 323-5, 328, 340, 341, 364, 365, 384, 386-93, 395-8, 401, 402, 404, 405, 409, 413, 414

Kerepunu. Cf. Keapara

Kernge (lads during initiation), 140

Kersi (lads during initiation), 45, 48, 50, 61, 70

Kina Balu, Mount, 349, 350

Kingfisher, 388

Kinimali (game), 230

Kiriri Island, 185

Kiwai Island, 24, 96-109;

natives of, 101

Knife, bamboo, 115

made of boar’s tusk, 243

Knocking out tooth, 193

Koiari, 244

Koitapu, 249;

language of, 249

Kolap (top), 40, 41

Kŏpa-kŏpa, 175

Korikini (game), 229

Kwaito pinupinu (game), 229

Kwari kwari (toy), 227

Kwod (sacred ceremonial ground), 192

in Mabuiag, 134

in Nagir, 181

in Pulu, 137-42

in Tut, 176-78

in Yam, 178-80

small boys’, 180

Kwoiam (the hero of Mabuiag), 136-47

Kuching, town of, 279-84

Kupor (navel shrine), 142, 177, 179

Kuru (toy), 225

Labuan Island, 286, 318

Ladies of Tama Bulan’s house, 375

Lakatois, 248

Lamar (ghost), 89, 90

Land Dayak, 321, 322, 327, 340, 391, 393

Land inheritance, Cape York, 193

Land leeches, 304, 346

Langa (toy), 225

Lange, Mr. H. W. de, 95, 97

Language of Roro, 261

Australian, 30

Melanesian, 29, 30

Papuan, 29, 30

Languages of Torres Straits, 28-30, 127

Lantern entertainment in Murray Island, 37, 38

at Port Moresby, 246

Laterite, 345

Lawes, Dr., 208, 209, 234, 249, 273

Lawes, Mrs., 209, 234

Laziness of natives, 19

Leap-frog, 227

Legends:

Gelam, 16, 155;

of various shrines, 53-69;

origin of man, 108;

origin of fire, 108;

the stone that fell from the sky, 138;

of Kwoiam, 136-47;

about dugong, 155

Lelak, 321, 410

village, 330

Lepocestes, 383-5, 389

Lepuanans, 354, 355

Liberality of natives, 90

Life token, 259

Lifu, colour-blindness of natives, 126

head-form, 126

Limbang, 285-90, 293, 297

Ling, Roth H., 320, 381

Linjau, 360

Lirongs, 403-6, 410, 413

Liver of pig, 336, 354, 355, 411, 412

Lobong River, 352

Logan Ansok, 406

Loin-cloth to die in, 370

London Missionary Society’s stations:

Murray Island, 9;

Kiwai, 96, 97;

Mabuiag, 117;

Vatorata, 208-10;

Delena, 199;

Bulaa (Hula), 211;

Port Moresby, 235

“Long,” 333

Long Aiah Kechil, 342, 344, 348

Kiput, 321, 401, 404, 405, 410

Pata, 302, 321, 341, 401, 405

Pokuns, 360

Puah, 352

Semitan, 342

Sulan, 360

Tegin, 334

Tru, 330

Love affairs, Mawatta, 112;

Mabuiag, 158-64

charms, Torres Straits, 106

letters, Papuan, 163, 164

Love-making in Mekeo, 258

in Sarawak, 377-80

Lovers’ tune, 379

Low, Brooke, 283, 322

Lower carboniferous rocks, 315

Mabuiag, 117-64

church, 122

language, 127

social condition of, 118

war dance, 233

Macfarlane, Rev. Dr. S., 7, 120, 127, 142, 143

Macgregor, Sir William, 97, 102, 203, 205, 206, 209, 213, 251, 262

Madangs, 364, 401, 410, 412, 413

Madub (garden charm), 106, 107

Madubu (bull-roarer), 104-6

Magic. Cf. Sorcery

symbolic, 257, 133, 134

Magical ceremonies, 133, 134, 184

stone hooks, 370, 371, 373, 396

Magur (“devil” belong Malu), 50

Maiau, 180

Maino (chief of Tut and Yam), 171, 174-80, 184, 185

Maki gegelaki (game), 228

Malangs, 321, 342

Malay Archipelago, 372

bear, 391

Peninsula, 372

rule, 288

traders, 356

Malays, 326-9, 338, 341, 342

Malohs, 356, 357

Malu, 46, 61, 180

ceremonies, 42-52, 61-3, 102

masks, 46-8, 92

songs, 45, 46, 62, 63

Mammals of Borneo, 348, 349

Mamoose (Torres Straits chief), 8, 20, 21

Mancala game, 284

Mangoes, 302

Mangroves, 266

Manufacture of stone club, 245

Map of stones, 61

Marea (club-house), 100, 257, 262, 268, 270

Mari, 181

Mariget, 181

Marine pile dwellings, 206, 223

Marital relations in Mabuiag, 161

in Murray Island, 20, 76, 78

Market-place, 269

Market women, 269

Markets in Mekeo district, 265

Marriage customs, Torres Straits, 158-64;

Borneo, 363, 364, 377-80

Marsh land of Borneo, 319

Marudi. Cf. Claudetown

Masingara “bushmen,” 111, 112

Mask, war ceremony, 59;

Mawatta, 114;

fishing dance, 183;

Malu ceremony, 46-8

in Mekeo district, 271

Mausoleum, 284

Mawatta, 111-116

May Meeting, 128-31

McDougall, W., 22, 23, 26, 28, 303, 305, 330, 337, 347, 405

Medicine-man (Australian), 90;

(Bornean), 307, 374

Meeting, public, 402, 410

Mekeo district, 252-77

markets, 265, 269

tribe, 261, 262

Mĕlanau, 321, 327, 357, 390, 391

Melanesia, secret societies in, 44

Melanesian languages, 29, 30

Melanesians, 18

Mer. Cf. Murray Island

Mesozoic rocks in Borneo, 316

Milman, H., 111-113, 175

Mimetic dances, 49, 114, 188, 189

Miocene in Borneo, 317

Mirror-writing, 25

Mission schools in New Guinea, 97, 98, 208, 209

Mixed marriages, 357

Modesty of New Guinea women, 274

Mohu, 252, 268

Monkey and frog fable, 343

Morality, code of in Torres Straits, 176

Mosquito nets, native Papuan, 259

Mota ĕrĕmpto (game), 229

Motu tribe, 249

Mountain ranges of Borneo, 312

tribes, New Guinea confederation of, 247

Mount Ernest. Cf. Nagir

Warirata, 240, 241

Mourning in Murray Island, 94

Mulu, Mount, 349

Mummies, Torres Straits, 91

Muntjac, 385

Muralug (Prince of Wales Island), 119, 185-9

Murder, 340

Murders in Sarawak, 300-2, 338-41

Muriks, 371

Murray Island (Mer), 8, 11-21;

climate, 18;

geology, 12-17

Islanders, 18, 19, 118, 119, 127

Muruts, 321, 393

Museum, Sarawak, 282-4, 372

Musgrave, Hon. A., 205, 206, 236, 251

Myers, C. S., 22, 23, 25, 26, 28

Nagir, Island of, 180-3

Names, reluctance to mention, 103

Nara, tribe, 260

Naroms, 321, 401, 409, 410

Narrow-headed natives, Torres Straits, 18, 119, 120;

Sarawak, 321, 343

Native cemetery (Sarawak), 284

grief (Papuan), 222

Navarre, Archbishop, 185, 203, 252, 266

Navel shrines, 142, 177, 179

Nēĕt (dugong platform), 152, 153

New Guinea oratory, 268

vegetation, 239, 241

New Jungle, 304, 345

Ninox, 391

Numerals, Papuan, 30, 243

Nurumara (totem of Kiwai), 101-3

Oboe, 225

Obstacle race, 401

Offering of eggs, 409

to Balli Flaki, 409

Old Jungle, 304, 345

Oligocene in Borneo, 317

“Olive Branch,” 197

Omen animals of Sarawak, 381-93

birds, 344, 352, 362, 379, 381-93

offerings to, 352

Omens, 259, 344, 352, 362, 379, 381-93

Omoro (game), 228

Oracles, 53-7, 178

Orang Bukit, 306, 401, 402

Orang Kaya Tumonggong Lawai, 300-2, 406

Oratory, Bornean, 411, 412

Papuan, 268

Origin of fire, 108

Orthotomus, 384, 385, 390

Owning an omen bird, 344

Padi bug, 391

competition, 401

cultivation of, 323, 327, 360, 381-3

swamp, 323, 325

Painted board, sign of chieftainship, 270

Palæozoic rocks in Borneo, 315

Panyamun scare, 338, 340, 359, 365, 368

Papuan Gulf, 198

language, 29, 30

Papuans, true, or Western, 119, 249

Parang, 285, 324

Pasi, Mamoose of Dauar, 8, 28, 72, 74

Pata River, 375

Paying for a baby, 175

Peace-making at Baram, 401-15

Pearl-shelling industry, 2-4, 6, 85, 121

Pelandok, 383-6

Pelican dance, 114, 189

Penchallong, 410

Penghulu, 335

Pepker the hill-maker, 64, 65

Perham, Ven. Archdeacon J., 381, 392

Perineal band, painted, 274

Personal totem, 194

Petticoats (leaf), New Guinea, 111, 175, 274

Philip, Brother, 273

Phlebotomy, 223

Phonograph, 37, 100, 200, 234, 252, 256, 273, 338;

in a marea, 256

Photographing natives, 28

zogos, 66

Photographs (natives recognising friends), 9

Physical features of Borneo, 348

Pictographs, 137, 140, 185

Pig-a-back, game of, 227

Pig ceremony in Sarawak, 336, 353-5, 411, 412

hunt (game), 274

offering of for feast, 217, 270

Pigsties, 298

“Pigeons,” 74

Pile dwellings: Kiwai, 99;

Saibai, 173;

New Guinea, 204, 206, 208, 211, 213, 235;

Borneo, 290, 298, 330, 331, 375

driving, 224

village, marine, 206, 208, 211, 235, 290

Pinupaka, village of, 266, 267, 276

Piracy, 291, 326

Plains of Borneo, 315

Plantations of the natives, 214, 234

Platforms, taboo, 208

Platylophus, 384, 385, 390

“Play” in Murray Island, 36, 37, 63

Pleiades, 381

Pokao tribe, 262

Police (native), Torres Straits, 19, 20, 76, 77

Poles, frayed, 361

Port Kennedy. Cf. Thursday Island

Port Moresby, 205, 235, 246, 248, 249

Porpoises, 151

Posts, carved, 375

Pottery, manufacture of, 200, 248, 261

Prayer to an omen bird, 344

Praying to a pig, 336, 354, 411

Presents from natives, 10, 122, 130, 172, 335, 336

Prince of Wales Island. Cf. Muralug

Procrastinating habits of Sĕbops, 343, 346

Proposals of marriage, 158, 162-4, 377

Proto-Malay, 321

Psychological laboratory, 23

Psychology, experimental, 23-8, 109, 120, 200, 222

Pulu, Island of, 136-43

Punan medicine-man, 366

Punans, 302, 304, 320, 323, 324, 327, 334, 355, 384, 389, 390, 393

Punishments in Torres Straits, 20, 21

Punitive expedition in Sarawak, 301

Purchasing a stone implement, 368-74

Quaternary rocks in Borneo, 318

Queensland. Cf. Australia

Rabao (Yule Island), 199, 200, 203, 252-61, 276

Race, practice, 402

Raiding by New Guinea natives, 247

Rain-making in Torres Straits, 33-5, 86, 87, 134

stopping, 87

Rajah of Sarawak, 279, 282, 284, 289, 291, 293, 300, 322, 338, 341, 411

Rapids, 299, 358

Rapurapu (game), 228

Ray, S. H., 28-31, 39, 126, 127, 243, 248, 249, 252, 267, 273, 279, 298, 330, 358

Rapids, 358

Reaction experiments, 26

Read, C. H., 372

Reefs (coral), 1, 6-8, 12, 15-18, 117, 148

Regatta at Baram, 402, 409, 410

at Kuching, 280

Relationship between two Papuan villages, 258

Relic-fauna in Borneo, 351

Remaung (ghost-tiger), 305

Requiem Mass in New Guinea, 254

in Rome, 254

Reservoir in Kuching, 282;

scare about heads for foundations of, 339

Resident, 293

Restrictions in food, 135, 257

Reticence of natives, 32, 45

Revolving game, 228

Rice, cultivation of. Cf. Padi

Ricketts, O. F., 285, 287, 301, 304

River scenery, 286, 358, 359

Rivers, Dr. W. H. R., 23-5, 27, 39, 59, 123, 124

Rock paintings, 137, 140, 185

Roro language, 261

tribe, 260

Rotumah dances, 36

Roth, H. Ling, 320, 381

Rove, 258

Saba Irang, 364, 365, 410-12

Sacred Heart Mission, 203, 252-6, 262, 266-77

Sacredness, 67, 258

Sacred stones, 360, 375;

of Murray Island, cf. Zogo

words or songs, 31, 32, 45, 40, 62, 63

Sago factory, 287

trade (native) in New Guinea, 248

in Sarawak, 288

Saguane village, 96-9, 104, 109

Saibai, Island of, 170-4

Salter, Dr., 1

Samaria kosker (women of Samaria), 84

Sarawak, 293

geographical features of, 286

history of, 291-3

Malay, 322, 327

Museum, 282-4, 372

Sarcophagus, 334

Sasia, 381, 384, 385, 387, 389

Saw-fish chant, 184

Scarification, 110, 113, 200

Scott-Keltie Falls, 346, 348

River, 345, 346

Sea-cow, 151

Sea Dayaks. Cf. Iban

Sĕbop, 321, 341, 343, 346, 357, 363, 371, 404

chief, 363

dances, 357, 358

fable about, 343

girls, 356

head-form, 343

village, 352, 368

Seclusion of boys in Tut, 176

of girls in Mabuiag, 135

Secret societies in Melanesia, 44

Secular dances, 188, 189, 233, 357

Seligmann, C. G., 1, 23, 28, 62, 109, 135, 154, 200, 245, 248, 279

Sengalong Burong, 384, 385, 387-9, 392

Sensitiveness to pain, 26

Shaduf, 287

Sharpe, Dr. R. B., 350

Shelford, R., 279, 283, 284, 372

Shell hoe, 109

ornaments, 261

Shields, 357, 358, 360, 410

Shirt as symbol of loyalty, 244

Shrike, 390

Shrines in Torres Straits:

Rain, 34;

Tomog Zogo, 54;

Zabarker, 60;

wind, 60;

Iriam Moris, 64;

therapeutic, 65;

coconut, 67, 87;

fishing, 68;

turtle, 69;

Au Kosker, 69;

Waiad, 69, 70;

yam, 86;

constipation, 88;

navel, 142, 177, 179;

of Kwoiam, 136-145

Siap (charms), 368, 370, 372, 373, 399

Sibu, town of, 284

Siberian railway, sacrifice for, 339

Sigai, 177, 179, 180

Skipping game, 227

Skull collecting, 92, 93, 120, 121, 337, 338

cult of, 394-400

danger of meddling with, 337, 353, 374, 399, 400

decorated, 91, 181, 182

divination, 92, 182

Skulls:

Mer, 91-93;

Mawatta, 115;

Mabuiag, 120, 142;

Yam, 180;

Kiriri, 185;

Sarawak, 332, 337, 352, 394-400

leaving old, 398

loaning, 395

preparation of in Kiwai, 107

Sleeping with a sweetheart, 377

Smell, sense of (Murray Islanders), 25

Smelling a dance, 250

Smith, Mr., 280, 283

Smoking, Papuan method of, 75

Snakes, omen, 391

Social divisions in Mekeo, 270

Sociology of Torres Straits, 19-21, 77, 118-20, 125, 145, 146;

of Kiwai, 99-109;

of New Guinea, 207, 208, 212-14, 242, 243, 247, 248, 270-2;

of Sarawak, 327-9

Sogeri tribe, 244

Songs, chorus, 324

Sorcerer’s kit, 201

Sorcerers, Mabuiag, 154, 262

of Koitapu, 249

Sorcery, New Guinea, 83, 202

Murray Island, 128

Soul house, 311

of a sick woman, 310

of the pig, 337

South Sea dances, 35

Spear-throwers, 200, 201

Speeches, 354, 355, 411, 412

Spencer, Prof. Baldwin, 134

Spiral designs, 260

Spirits (lamar), 89, 90, 340

of sickness, 366

Star myths (Torres Straits), 165-9

St. John, Sir Spenser, 292, 294, 339, 386

St. Joseph River, 261

Stockades in New Guinea, 247

Stone adzes in use (New Guinea), 220, (Mekeo), 272;

axes, Africa, 372

club, manufacture of, 245

clubs, 251

implements in Kiwai, 108

in Sarawak, 327, 368-72

Stones, sacred, in Borneo, 360, 375

String puzzles and tricks, 38, 39, 175, 201

Sucker fish (Echeneis), fishing with, 155

Suggestibility of natives, 27

Sumatra, geology of, 315

Sun birds, 390

Sun, moon, and night (myth of), 168

Supreme God in Sarawak, 336, 337, 352

Sultan of Brunei, 288, 300

Swimming diving, 121

Symbolic magic, 257

Taboo, 257, 270, 272

Taburi, 244

Tagai constellation, 166

Tailor bird, 390

Tama Bulan, 324, 335, 375-80, 401-6, 409-14

Taman Liri, 335

Tamar, 40, 58, 59, 62

Tamate, 95, 128. Cf. Rev. J. Chalmers

Taste, 26

Tattooed hands, 306, 395

Tattooing, 199, 204, 214, 222, 259, 305, 306, 326

process of, in New Guinea, 222;

in Borneo, 305, 306

Taxation in Sarawak, 293

Teetotum, 227

Tegulan, 360

Thief, 222

Thomas, Oldfield, 120, 142, 350

Throwing-stick, 201

Thrush, 389

Thunderbolts, 372, 373

in Europe, 372

Thunder god, 369

Thursday Island, 1-4, 183-5, 189-93

Tiger, effigy of, 360

Tight-lacing in New Guinea, 256

Time, estimation of, 25

Tingang, 363

Tinjar River, 330, 358

Tobacco, native, 243

pipes, Papuan, 75

Toitoi (game), 230, 231

Tomb decorations, 285

Tomog Zogo, 53-7

Tooth, knocking out, 193

Top-spinning in Murray Island, 40

in New Guinea, 227, 272, 273

Totemism, 43, 44

in New Guinea, 101-3

in Queensland, 193, 194

in Sarawak, 393

in Torres Straits, 102, 132-5, 138, 142, 171, 172

Toy bows and arrows, 222

throwing spear, 200

Toys: Papuan children’s toys:

kuru (diamond), 225;

kwari kwari (hummer), 227;

oboe (vili vili), 225-7;

palm leaf puzzles (langa), 225-7;

spear (or javelin) throwing, 200, 201, 224, 225;

teetotum, 227;

tops, 272, 273;

whirligig, 225;

whistle, 227

Trade, native: Borneo, 321-3, 356, 365;

New Guinea, 204, 213, 214, 222, 261, 265, 266, 269

on the half-profit system, 222

voyages, 248

Tragulus, 385. Cf. Pelandok

Tree-houses in New Guinea, 242, 248

Tripang, 3

Triple-crowned coconut palm, 172

Trogon, 388

Trumpet, 225

Tuba-fishing, 324, 406, 408, 409

Tuk (New Guinea sorcery), 83, 84

Turtle charms, 69, 134, 140

cutting up, 205, 157

fishing, 155-7

tracks in sand, 67

zogo, 69

Tut, Island of, 174-8

U zogo (coconut shrine), 67

Ufapie, 258

Ukit tribe, 320, 323

Umu Belubu, 305

Urip, 354, 355, 396

Vaccination marks, 172

Vanigela River, 212

Variability of native temperament, 27

in character of the hair, 223

Vatorata, 208, 234

Vee, 261

Vegetation, 65, 118, 212, 219, 239, 240-2, 269, 280, 281, 286, 304, 359

Veifaa, 273-6

Verandah in New Guinea houses, 99, 242, 243

in Sarawak houses, 298, 331

Vili vili (toy), 226

Villages on top of hills, 242

Visual acuity, 23

Vitale, Father, 272

Wag Zogo (wind shrine), 60

Waiad, 69

ceremonies, 70

Waier, Island of, 12, 17, 18, 68-70

Waima, masked men at, 271

Waipem (turtle shrine), 69

Wallace, A. Russell, 303, 348, 349

Walker, Rev. F. W., 197

War dances, 60, 131, 140, 186-8, 233, 258

Waria, chief of Mabuiag, 123

Warirata Mount, 240, 241

Warpath of the Kayans, 297

Warrior Island, 174. Cf. Tut

Waterspouts, spirits of, 141

Wauri, 156, 157

Wedding in Mabuiag, 161

Weight, discrimination of, 26

West Africa, stone axe-heads, 372

Whipping-tops, Mekeo, 272;

Kabadi, 273

Whirligig, 225

Whistle, 227

Widow in mourning, 206

Wife-beating and slanging, 20, 76, 83

Wilkin, A., 27, 28, 38, 100, 157, 248, 252, 267

Wilson, Prof. T., 273

Wind charm, 60, 82

instruments, 225

zogo, 60

Women beating drums, 218

Women’s ceremony, 219

Wooden belt, 256

bowl, 220

hooks, 396

images, 104-7, 333, 360, 375

Woodpecker, 389

Yam, Island of, 174, 176, 178-80

Yam charms, 104-7, 202, 203

zogo, 86

Yaraikanna tribe, 190

Yeku, 262

Yellow earth, 172

Yule Island. Cf. Rabao

Zab Zogo (fishing-shrine), 68

Zabarker shrine, 60

Ziai Neur Zogo, 65

Ziria, 252, 256

Ziriam Zogo, 59

Zogo, 53-70;

meaning of term, 67;

coconut, 87;

divining skull, 91;

of Wiwar (constipation), 88, 89;

yam, 86

mer (sacred words), 31, 32, 45, 46, 63

Zogole (sacred men of Murray Island), 48, 61, 70, 88, 89, 92

PLYMOUTH WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON PRINTERS