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INDEX

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