Note 24 — Chapter I · EXPOSITION OF THE PROBLEM AND METHOD

For the methods of carrying out justice, i. e. for the executive organs, see Wheeler, pp. 131-139, where the "authorized agents" (avenging parties, etc.), regulated fights, expiatory ordeals and blood revenge, methods which, as different forms of carrying out justice, are more or less executions of a sentence and have the character of legal proceedings.

See also under the heading "Executive power of tribal councils of old men," in Howitt's Nat. Tr., chap. vi. pp. 295 sqq.—The Pinya party of the Dieri tribe. Ibid., pp. 297, 321 and 326.—An atonement of the offence by barter, p. 329. Direct action of magicians, ibid. p. 343. Compare also the Kurdaitcha, Illapurinja, and Atninga parties of the Arunta. Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., chap. xiii. p. 475. All these parties are more or less under the control of the tribal council of old men.