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 Boorah—continued. Gayandi, or Boorah spirit, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 72.

Gradual initiation at successive Boorahs, 78, 79, 81.

Preliminaries—summoning of neighbouring tribes, preparations, etc., 62-69.

Presents presented to women relations of boys who had been initiated, 59.

Bootha, witch woman, 8, 42-49, 85.

Bower-bird's playground, 26.

Boyjerh, name for Byamee used by women and uninitiated, 4.

Boys— Initiation ceremonies, see Boorah. Manufacture of, by the wood lizard, etc., 61.

Training of a boy up to Boorah preliminaries, 61.

Bralgah (native companion), extinct totem, 19.

Bridal bouquets, origin of, 57.

Buckandee (native cat) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 19.

Bullimah—Byamee's sky-camp, 91.

Bull-roarer, see Gayandi.

Bunbul—little Boorah ring, 64.

Burrahwahn (sandhill rat) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 19.

Bush walks with gins and piccaninnies, 113.

Bushmen and trackers, blacks as, 112.

Byamee or Baiame, 'The All Father,' xxvi, 2. Boorah instituted by, see Boorah.

Boyjerh—name used by women and uninitiated, 4.

Byamee was to the Euahlayi what Alcheringa was to the Arunta, 6.

Concealment of belief from women and uninitiated, 6.

Fish-trap made by, alleged, 8, 102.

Fishing festival rules, 8.

Languages in which the name occurred, 4.

Manna, provision of, when drought threatened, 114.

Meaning and derivation of name, 4.

Origin of— Missionary importation of Byamee, question of, 5.

Not derived from European influence nor developed from ancestor-worship—Mr. Howitt's evidence, 6.

Byamee—continued. Prayers to Byamee, 8, 9, 79.

Totems, source of—totem name for each part of his body, etc., 7.

Traces of—-stone imprints, etc., 102.

Wives of Byamee, 7, 78, 103. Byamee's sky-camp, passage of the spirit after death, 90.

Byamee's song, 6, 79, 80.

, marking of, 94.

Cannibalism, 38, 73.

Legend of Boogoodoogahdah, 10.

Canopus, legend of, 96.

Canton, Mr., 21.

Castor and Pollux—legend, 96.

Caves at Eurahbah—Birrahgnooloo's springs, 103.

Children— Bogy dreaded by, 137.

Divorce—custody of children, 58.

Production of— Arunta philosophy of reincarnation of ancestral spirits, xviii.

Euahlayi beliefs— Incarnation of freshly created beings, etc., 50-52.

Manufacture and distribution of babies, xxiv, 50, 61.

Spirits visible to babies, 46.

Various customs to ensure good health, physique, and a desirable character, 52-55.

Churinga nanja belief, xx, xxv.

Circumcision, xiii, xvii.

Civilisation of Australian tribes—probably most backward of mankind, xi.

Climatic causes not the only factors in social and religious progress—Arunta and northern coastal tribes compared with south-eastern tribes, xv-xvii.

Clouds, etc., totems claiming, 16, 82.

Clouds of Magellan, legend, 97.

Clubs used in war, 124.

Coastal conditions—heavier rainfall, etc., causing social and religious progress, alleged; central and northern coastal tribes not credited with All Father belief, xv, xvi.

Coffin, making of, 85.

Collarene, drink made of, 119.

Comets, mythical reasons for, 99.

Cookeran Lake—haunted, 139.

Cooking, methods of, 116, 117.

Cooks—objection to women cooks, 111.