at funerals, 425

Baessler, A., 221 _n._^1, 279 _n._^1, 285, 286, 374

Baganda, superstition as to twins among the, 270 _sq._

Baldness as penalty of impiety, 95;
the penalty of breach of taboo, 209 _sq._

Baluba, of the Congo, customs as to twins among the, 273

Banishment of chiefs in Samoa, 176

Banqueting-halls of the Marquesans, 343 _sq._

Baptism among the Maoris, 16

Bark-cloth, manufacture of, 61, 168, 222, 251 _sq._, 334, 381;
not made in time of mourning, 234 _sq._

Baronga, of S.E. Africa, their superstitions concerning twins,
268 _sq._

Barundi, of E. Africa, customs as to twins among the, 272 _sq._

Bastian, Adolf, on sun-worship, 131 _n._

Bathing after burial, 21;
of king at installation, 255 _n._^1;
after contact with a corpse, 313

Bats, goddess incarnate in, 185;
local deity, 196

Bay of Plenty, 23

Bennett, F. D., 332 _sq._, 359, 360, 372

Best, Elsdon, 6 _n._, 33, 35

Birds, gods incarnate in, 187 _sq._;
sacred, 228;
small land birds formerly oracular, 228;
gods in the form of, 277, 294;
worshipped in Hawaii, 402

Birth, a man's god determined at, 200 _sq._, 223;
ceremonies after a, 288

Blackened faces in mourning, 231, 235

Blood of chief sacred, 45 _sq._;
human, acceptable offering to deity, 188;
offered to the dead, 209;
of relatives offered to bride at marriage, 289;
of bride's mother offered to bridegroom, 289;
of mourners offered to the dead, 303, 304, 311

Bolotoo (Boolotoo, Bulotu), fabulous island, residence of Tongan gods
and of noble dead, 65, 66, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 _sq._,
92, 93, 98, 135

Bones of Captain Cook worshipped, 396

---- of dead dug up, 21;
painted red, 21;
concealed, 21;
profaned, 21;
festival at removal of, 22;
burned, 23;
of sacrificial victims not broken, 291;
of famous men carried off by enemies, 311;
thrown into volcano, 400;
carried about by relatives, 419 _sq._;
hidden to prevent profanation, 420

---- of dead chiefs buried in temples (_morais_), 311;
hidden in caves, 312, 420

Boolotoo Katoa, a Tongan god, 94

Borabora, one of the Society Islands, 246, 281, 317

Bows and arrows, unknown to Maoris, 10;
used by the Society Islanders as an amusement, 252 _sq._;
unknown to the Marquesans, 335;
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