INDEX

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Adoption 33

Armlets 66

Athegiths or ghosts 148

Bachelors’ Houses, Construction of 36

Banana-leaf mats 104, 151

“Bei” leaves 130

Bracelets 66

Burial position 176

Burial rites 162

Burying grounds 171

Cat’s-cradle 107, 112

Causes of illness 148

Colour perception 155

Combs 57

Copra 27

Costume 56

Counting 140

Creation legend 142

Dances 82

Drift of canoes 41

Ear-lobes, Slitting of 59

Ear-protectors 110

Ear-rings 61

Epileptics 148

European music, Appreciation of 70

Failu, A 36

Failu after a fishing expedition 43

Falraman (Heaven) 68, 147

Fatumak 126

Fatumak’s writing 139

Fei 93

Fire, Origin of 151

Fishing in open sea 38

Forbidden song of Failu 75

Fortune tellers 137

Fortune telling 130, 133

Funeral, A 164

Gods and Demons 149

Grave digging 172

Heaven (Falraman) 68, 147

High-born nobles 49

History of the Carolines 16

Houses, Construction of 22

Importation of Fei 100

Incantations 152

Inifel of Magachpa 63

Introduction of tattooing 159

Japanese poetry 80

Kakofel, daughter of Lian 108

Kitchens 110

Language of songs and incantations 77

Legend of creation 142

Lemet, a mispil 51

Lost Fei, The 96

Mach-mach or sorcery 152

Marafa,—a badge of puberty 123

Migiul, a mispil 124

Mispils 46

Mispils, Capture of 50

Money and currency 92

Moving pictures 83

Mutilations 59

Naming a child 153

Necklaces 62

New fire 37

Omens from Bei leaves 132

Origin of fire 151

Out-rigger canoes, Management of 40

Pabai, A 36

Paths, Native made 31

Payment of a fine 98

Perception of colour 155

Phonographic records 69

Pimlingai, Slave class 49, 158, 168

Pooguroo 29, 33

Population 17

Posture songs 82, 85

Presents to a corpse 166

Religion 142

Return of a fishing party 42

Ronoboi, The mach-mach 64, 106

Sacred mats or Umbul 104, 151

Shell money 102, 103

Shell necklaces as money 105

Sitting down posture song 86

Slave class, Pimlingai 49, 158, 168

Soul, The 147, 149

Spells 79

Standard of beauty 124

Standing-up dance 88

Stone money 93

Sunken wealth 97

Superstitions 39, 43, 45, 120, 137, 165

Taboo over fishermen 38

Tacking with an out-rigger canoe 40

Tafenai, The soul 147, 149

Tattooing 157

Tattooing of a mispil 54

Thauei, Shell necklaces 105

Trading value of Fei 101

Uaap, Meaning of 16

Umbul, Sacred mats 104

Women’s skirts 121

Words of songs 78

Yalafath, The Supreme Deity 149

Yap, Meaning of 16