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414 *Carving, 172.
 * Castanets, 339.
 * Castaways, 345.
 * Casuarina, 186.
 * Catamarans, 293 note, 294.
 * Cat's-cradle, 341.
 * Cause of Sickness, 196.
 * Celebes, 317 note.
 * Changeling Snakes and Spirits, 172, 187, 188.
 * — Trees, 187.
 * Channels, 16.
 * Charms in food, 49.
 * — sung, 119, 161, 190, 198, 202, 359, 395.
 * Chastity, 235.
 * Chiefs, 46, 47, 50, 51, 54, 56, 60.
 * Childhood, 231.
 * Childless Ghost, 275.
 * Children in Societies, 70, 81, 84, 92, 98.
 * Circumcision, 234.
 * Classes of Ghosts, 253.
 * Cloak in Mysteries, 78, 8 1 note, 91, 99.
 * Close-time in Mysteries, 83, 95.
 * Cloth, 320.
 * Clothing, 321.
 * Club-houses, 102.
 * Clubs, 306.
 * — Societies, 101, 103, 104, 110, 112, 114.
 * Cockatoos, 17.
 * Cocoa-nut, to mark absence, 77.
 * Comet, 348.
 * Comins, Rev. R. B., 42 note.
 * Communal Marriage, 27.
 * Contrariété Island, see Ulawa.
 * Cook, Capt., 4.
 * Cookery, 319.
 * Coral, 14.
 * Cotoira, 2 note, 9 note.
 * Counting, 341, 353, 377.
 * — days, 272.
 * — song, 341.
 * Couvade, 228.
 * Creation, 26, 28, 154, 171.
 * Cremation, 263.
 * Crocodiles, 18, 179, 180.
 * Cultivations, 303.
 * Curses, 51, 147, 216.
 * Cuscus, 17.
 * Cycas, 1 86.


 * Dances, 84, 87, 91, 93, 95, 332.
 * Darkness universal, 182.
 * Death, 247.
 * — Days, 271.
 * — Meals, see Funeral Feasts.
 * — Origin of, 260, 265.
 * Decorations, in, 116, 386.
 * Decorative Arts, 328.
 * Deliverance Feast, 112.
 * Descent in Family, 22, 41.
 * — to Hades, 277, 286.
 * —of Property, 59.
 * Destruction of Property after Death, 255, 263, 285.
 * Devil, 117, 122.
 * Discoveries, 2, 8.
 * Diseases, 12 note.
 * Disposing of corpses, 267, 269.
 * Divination, 196, 210.
 * Division of People, 21, 24, 400.
 * Divorce, 244.
 * Doctors, 195.
 * Dreamers, 208.
 * Dreams, 208, 249, 266.
 * Dress, 107, 231, 234, 241, 321.
 * Drill, 325.
 * Driving Ghosts, 270.
 * Drums, 175, 336.
 * Dugong, 318.
 * Dukduk, 69.
 * Dye, 322, 323.


 * Ear ornaments, 330.
 * Ears pierced, 232, 265 note, 280.
 * Eclipses, 348.
 * Eels, 18, 318.
 * Elevation of land, 16.
 * Elopement, 240.
 * Enclosures, 84, 86.
 * Entrance to Clubs, 105.
 * — to Hades, 273.
 * — to Mysteries, see Initiation.
 * — payments, 81, 84, 92, 103, 106, 115.
 * Espiritu Santo, 3, 6, 8, 17, 306, 315.
 * Exclusion of Women, 128.
 * Exogamy, 21, 24, 29, 34.
 * Exorcism, 220.


 * Fagani, see Ha'ani.
 * Fainting, 260, 287.
 * Familiar Spirits, 142.
 * Family, 25, 26, 34, 68.
 * — System, 35, 40.
 * Fasting, 107, 205.
 * Feasts. 104, 108, no, 112.
 * — funeral, 255, 259, 261, 264, 271, 273, 280, 282, 284, 287.
 * Feather-money, 324.
 * Fenua loa, 17.
 * Fighting, 305.
 * Figure-heads, 296.
 * Figures in Mysteries, 87, 96.
 * Fiji, 2, 22 note, 34, 43, 48, 59, 61 note, 04 note, 69, 72, 122, 147 note, 198 note, 246 note, 248, 315, 319, 340.