Note 257 — Chapter XIII · HISTORICAL ART
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Parker, Aborigines of Australia, pp. 25, 26; Howitt in Journ. Anthr. Inst. xiii. pp. 453, 454 (Australian ceremonies of initiation), and Cameron in the same journal, xiv. p. 358 (Tribes of N.S. Wales); the last two instances quoted in Frazer, Totemism, p. 47. See also Fison, “The Nanga,” in J. A. I. xiv., esp. p. 22, on an initiation ceremony in Fiji, representing the ancestors lying dead and coming to life again, which curiously resembles Collins’s description and pictures of an Australian initiation (Collins, N.S. Wales, i. p. 575). For a somewhat analogous drama in East Africa see Dale, Journ. Anthr. Inst. xxv. p. 189 (Bondi country). For interpretation of all these rites see Frazer, Totemism, p. 47; and The Golden Bough, ii. pp. 343-359.