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 Mouth of a baby shut when asleep, precautions against disease or evil spirits, 53.

Mullee Mullee, dream-spirit of a wizard, 27, 28.

Mulloowil, shadow spirit, 29.

Mullyan (eagle-hawk), 82. Bones of victims—legends, 102. Munthdeeguns, men in charge of boys to be initiated at the Boorah, 64, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76.

Murder—

Penalty in the lower world, 78.

Trial of accused, 92.

Muscular exhibition, 130.

, rejected Gayandi, 67, 137.

Names— Dead—names never mentioned, 27.

Euahlayi—pronunciation and derivation, 1.

List of general names, 14, 15.

Meaning of phratry names, xxvi, 12.

Mother, derived from among the Euahlayi, 12, 13.

Night and day, different names used for a child as a precaution against devils, 13.

Place of birth, current incidents, etc., names derived from, 13.

Relationships— Common use of names proclaiming degree of relationship, 14.

Divisions of, denoted by names, xi, 11-13.

Needlework, 120.

Nets for fishing and trapping game, etc., 107.

Netted-looking clouds, 99.

Nights in the bush, sadness of, 140.

Nil admirari attitude of a black man, 65.

Nimmaylee, 112, 113.

Noorahgogo beetle, 140.

Northern Crown constellation—legend, 103.

Nose and nose-bonet— Flatness of nose, method of ensuring, 42.

Passage of arms between gin with nose-bone and white laundress with earrings, 55.

Piercing noses, 54.

Sense of smell lessened by use of nose-bone, 36. Numbardee, 85.

Numeration, method of, 11.

, 90.

Ooghnahbayah—small eagle hawk—method of attack on emu's nest, 113.

Opossum, disappearance of, from district, 115.

Orion, legend, 96.

divisions and names—meaning of names, etc., xi, xxvi, ii, 12.

Piame, see Byamee.

Piggiebillah, 115, 116.

Pirrauru or Piraunmgaru, custom of, unknown to Euahlayi, xi.

Places of refuge, 36.

Pleiades, legend, 95.

Poison-sticks, bones, etc., 31-33, 40.

Distribution by the Birrahmulgerhyerh, 136.

Prayers of the blacks, 8, 79, 80.

Present giving and receiving—meeting of Boodther, 81.

Promises—a broken promise never forgiven, 133.

and rainmaking—

Dead persons sendmg rain, 90.

Magic, xv, xvi.

Bootha's witch-poles, etc., 8, 47, 48, 49.

Orphan's cry heard by Byamee, alleged, 8.

Too much rain, method of stopping, 8. Rain-bird, 101.

Reincarnation, doctrine of, among Arunta, Kaitish, Euahlayi, etc., xviii-xx, xxiv, xxv, 2, 51.

Relationship, 12-13, 15.

Religious ideas and practices— All Father belief— Euahlayi, see Byamee.

Kaitish—modified belief in the All Father, Atnatu belief, xvii, xviii.

Social advances. See that subheading.

Ancestral spirits, belief in among northern tribes, xvii.

Dispute whether aborigines had anything more than vague beliefs in unattached spirits—theories advanced by various authorities, 1, 5, 6.

Evolution and transmission of beliefs, xxvi.

Mythical beings other than Byamee—no relation of affection between them and mankind, 9.