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Rh feeding the sick, 767; distribution of food, 767-8

Child, treatment of, in Bunya-Bunya tribe, 747-8

Children, naming of, by Kurnai, 736-7; Yuin, Wiimbaio, Bigambul, 739; Turrbal, Maryborough tribes, 740; method of counting, 748

Christison, R., 64. 227, 304, 386, 474, 709, 747, 766, 768

Cicatrices, meaning of, 313; Kurnai, 743, 744; Dieri, Yerkla, 744; Yuin, While Cliffs tribe, Bundaberg, Moreton Bay tribes, Bunya-Bunya and Ipswich tribes, 746

Clairvoyance, belief in, before death, see Magic

Clan, definition of, 44

Class divisions, 88; legends as to, 89

Class names, equivalence of, 109, 137-42

Classificatory system, 156

Codrington, Rev. K. H., 25, 27

Collins, Col., 75, 83, 84, 268, 315, 382, 438, 442, 445, 461, 464, 509, 567

Combat, of women, 197; ordeal by, 333; expiatory, 334-48

Commune, Undivided, 142-4, 173-4

Council, tribal, Wiimbaio, 301; Kamilaroi, 302; Wiradjuri, 303; Dieri, 320-2; Turrbal, Maryborough tribes, 323; Kaiabara, Buntamurra, Wotjobaluk, Kulin, Narrang-ga, 324; Narrinyeri, Yuin, Geawe-gal, Gringai, Kurnai, 325; Chepara, 326

Crawfurd, John, 26

Crawley, E., on exogamy, 285 sq.

Crowthers, R., 58, 108. 217, 384, 445, 467, 694, 769. 770

Curative practices, Kurnai, 379; Wurunjerri, 379, 387; Tongaranka, Wiimbaio, 380; Ngarigo, 381, 382; Yuin, Port Jackson trilxis, 382; Geawegal, Dungog, Port Stephens tribe, 383; Kamilaroi, Vualaroi and Bigambul, Turrbal, 384; Chepara, Kaiabara, Dalebura, 385; Jupagalk, 386; Wakelbura, 402; Kurnandaburi. Wilya, 411

Curr, E. M., 5, 53, 158, 296, 501, 503, 504, 754

Dalebura tribe, 64; remarriage of widow 227; tribal government, 304; Head-men, 304; rain-makers, 386; Bubiberi (medicine- men), 386; burial, 474 mutilations, 747; kindness to infirm, 766; division of food, 768; generous qualities. 768

Dance, Molongo, 330, 416

Darling River tribes, 49-51; punishment of offences, 194

David, T. W. E., 17; see Etheridge, and Grimshaw

Davis, R. H., i

Dawson, James, 17, 69, 125, 150, 250, 251, 306, 336, 442, 444, 455, 456-8, 503, 615, 690, 765

Dawson, R., 84, 268, 316, 398, 431, 496, 726, 747, 765

Dead, reluctance to speak of, 440-1, 469; burnt by Kulin, 443; by tribes of South-west Victoria, 444; treatment of, by Yerkla, 450

Descent, effect of male, 269; change from female to male, 283-4; maternal, in Salic Law, 286-94

Diagram I. Kamilaroi marriages and descents, 115

II. Kaiabara marriages and descents, 116

III. Dieri marriages and descents, 163

IV. Kurnai marriages and descents, 171

V. Dieri classes and totems, 175

VI. Dieri marriages and descents, 176

VII. Dieri class and totem relationships, 179

VIII. Urabunna marriages and descents, 189

IX. Dieri marriages and descents, 189

X. Four sub-class system of Kamilaroi, 200

XI. Kamilaroi marriages and descents, 201

XII. Kamilaroi and Dieri compared, 201

XIII. Wiradjuri marriages and descents, 209

XIV. Lachlan River tribe marriages and descents, 213

XV. Buntamurra sub-class and totemic marriages, 227

XVI. Kamilaroi and Kaialxira compared, 229

XVII. Muruburra marriage law, 230

XVIII. Arunta class system, 238

XIX. Arunta marriages and descents, 239

XX. Waramunga marriages and descents, 239

XXI. Waramunga marriage rule, 240

XXII. Wotjobaluk marriages and descents, 242

XXIII. Wurunjerri marriages and descents, 253

XXIV. Kurnai marriagesand descents, 270

XXV. Exogamous sections of community, 285