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Title: The Euahlayi Tribe
A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

Author: K. Langloh Parker

Posting Date: June 20, 2009 [EBook #3819]
Release Date: March, 2003
First Posted: September 24, 2001

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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The Euahlayi Tribe

A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

by

K. Langloh Parker

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE ALL FATHER, BYAMEE
III. RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS
IV. THE MEDICINE MEN
V. MORE ABOUT THE MEDICINE MEN AND LEECHCRAFT
VI. OUR WITCH WOMAN
VII. BIRTH--BETROTHAL--AN ABORIGINAL GIRL FROM INFANCY TO WOMANHOOD
VIII. THE TRAINING OF A BOY UP TO BOORAH PRELIMINARIES
IX. THE BOORAH AND OTHER MEETINGS
X. CHIEFLY AS TO FUNERALS AND MOURNING
XI. SOMETHING ABOUT STARS AND LEGENDS
XII. THE TRAPPING OF GAME
XIII. FORAGING AND COOKING
XIV. COSTUMES AND WEAPONS
XV. THE AMUSEMENTS OF BLACKS
XVI. BUSH BOGIES AND FINIS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

By one of the Euahlayi Tribe (Omitted from etext)

A NATIVE CARRYING A MESSAGE-STICK
TWO NATIVES READY FOR A CORROBOREE
THE FUNERAL OF A NATIVE. A BARK COFFIN
A NATIVE SINGING TO HIS OWN ACCOMPANIMENT
A NATIVE GRINDING GRASS SEED ON A DAYOORL-STONE
A NATIVE WITH SHIELD AND WADDY IN FRONT OF HIS CAMP

INTRODUCTION

No introduction to Mrs. Langloh Parker's book can be more than that
superfluous 'bush' which, according to the proverb, good wine does not
need. Our knowledge of the life, manners, and customary laws of many
Australian tribes has, in recent years, been vastly increased by the
admirable works of Mr. Howitt, and of Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. But
Mrs. Parker treats of a tribe which, hitherto, has hardly been
mentioned by anthropologists, and she has had unexampled opportunities
of study. It is hardly possible for a scientific male observer to be
intimately familiar with the women and children of a savage tribe. Mrs.
Parker, on t