- 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
About This Book
A travel and ethnographic account of field investigations among island and mainland communities in the Torres Strait, parts of New Guinea, and Sarawak, presenting detailed observations of customs, beliefs, social organization, material culture, music, language, medicine, and economic practices. The narrative interleaves descriptions of journeys and encounters with methodological notes on linguistic work, experimental psychology, photography, and physical measurements carried out by an organized scientific party. It stresses the increasing loss of traditional knowledge among younger generations and aims to record rites, objects, and oral information, illustrated with plates, textual figures, and maps.