q._, 202, 203, 207, 209 _sq._,
211 _sqq._, 224, 228 _sq._, 244, 260, 286 _sq._, 292, 299, 305 _sq._,
307, 322, 326, 345, 350 _sq._, 353 _sq._, 404 _sqq._, 462 _sqq._;
personated by masked men, 176, 179 _sq._, 182 _sq._, 185 _sqq._;
food offered to the, 183, 211, 214, 232, 241, 332, 338, 348 _sq._,
364 _sq._, 367 _sq._, 372 _sq._, 396 _sq._, 429, 442, 467;
elements of a worship of the, in Torres Straits, 189;
laid on platforms, 199, 203, 205;
worshipped in British New Guinea, 201 _sq._;
prayers to the, 201 _sq._, 214, 259, 288, 307, 329 _sq._, 332 _sqq._,
340, 376 _sq._, 401, 403 _sq._, 427, 441;
names of, not mentioned, 210, 246;
monuments of the, 225;
offerings of hunters and fishers to the, 226;
oracles of the, 235;
buried in the house, 236, 347, 352, 397, 398, 399;
offerings to the, 239, 276, 292, 298;
transmigrate into animals, 242, 245;
spirits of the, give good crops, 247 _sq._;
elements of a worship of the dead among the Yabim, 255;
spirits of the, believed to be mischievous, 257;
ancestors supposed to help in the cultivation of the ground, 259;
first-fruits offered to the, 259;
buried under houses, 259;
envious of the living, 267, 381;
burnt offerings to the, 294;
predominance of the worship of the, 297 _sq._;
power of the, over the living, 298, 306 _sq._, 307;
sacrifices to the, 307, 338;
wooden images (_korwar_) of the, 307 _sqq._, 315, 316 _sq._, 321, 322;
buried in island, 319;
festival of the, 320 _sq._;
medicine-men, inspired by spirits of the, 322;
spirits of the, embodied in their skulls, 338;
spirits of the, identified with white men, 342;
buried in the sea, 347 _sq._, 397;
relics of the, preserved, 348;
bodies of the, preserved for a time in the house, 351;
represented by wooden stocks, 374, 386;
burned in New Ireland, 397;
carried out of house by special opening, 452 _sqq._
_See also_ Ghost

Dead kings of Uganda consulted as oracles, 151

Death, the problem of, 31 _sqq._;
the savage conception of, 31 _sqq._;
thought to be an effect of sorcery, 33 _sqq._;
by natural causes, recognised by some savages, 55 _sq._;
myths of the origin of, 59 _sqq._;
personified in tales, 79 _sqq._;
not regarded as a natural necessity, 84 _sqq._;
the second, of the dead, 195, 286, 299, 345, 350, 351, 354;
attributed to sorcery, 249;
violent, ascribed to sorcery, 268 _sq._;
myth of the continuance of, 472