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Note 423 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS

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G. W. Stow, The Native Races of South Africa, London, 1905, p. 112. For further examples of new-moon and full-moon celebrations see P. Kolben, The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope, London, 1731, i, 96 (Hottentots); J. Bonwick, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, London, 1870, pp. 186 sqq.; Seligmann, Melanesians of British New Guinea, p. 193 (Koita); Carl Ribbe, Zwei Jahre unter den Kannibalen der Salomo-Inseln, Dresden, 1903, p. 163 (Shortland Island); Taylor, Te Ika A Maui, p. 93 (Maori); Turner, Samoa, p. 67; A. E. Jenks, in Ethnological Survey Publications, i, 206 (Bontoc Igorot of Luzon); V. Solomon, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1902, xxxii, 213 (Nicobarese); W. Bogoras, in Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, xi, 378 (Chukchi); J. v. Klaproth, Reise in den Kaukasus und nach Georgien, Halle, 1814, ii, 602 (Osetes); A. von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères, Paris, 1816, ii, 244 (Muysca of Colombia).

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