rus, 216

Sacredness of chiefs, 172 _sqq._

Sacrifice of children, 75 _sq._, 81 _sq._;
of hogs, 79;
of fingers, 80;
of first-born sons, 89;
as magical, 83;
of pigs to the dead, 368;
of hogs to volcano, 399

Sacrifices in the Society Islands, 291 _sq._;
of pigs for the recovery of the sick, 351.
_See_ Human sacrifices

Sacrilege, 67;
its expiation, 74 _sqq._, 183 _sqq._

Samoa, general name for the group of islands, 148;
original seat of Polynesian race, 154

Samoan Islands, 148 _sqq._;
volcanic activity in, 151 _sq._;
climate, 152 _sqq._

---- Islanders, their appearance and character, 156 _sqq._;
houses, agriculture, and industries, 163 _sqq._;
rights of property, 169 _sqq._;
government, 171 _sqq._;
religion, 181 _sqq._

---- worship of natural objects, 93, 96 _sq._;
of animals and other natural objects developed out of totemism,
200 _sqq._, 218

Sanctity of kings in the Society Islands, 253 _sq._;
of priest of Tani (Tane), 293

Sanctuaries for criminals, 282

Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, 375 _sqq._

Sandwich Islanders, 377 _sqq._;
their four chief gods, 35 _n._

Saturnalia at the death of a king or high chief in Hawaii, 421 _sqq._

Savage thought inconsistent, 84, 90 _sq._

Savages not addicted to sun-worship, 131

Savaii, one of the Samoan islands, centre of Polynesian dispersion, 6,
148 _sq._, 150 _sq._, 154 _sq._, 192, 195, 202, 215

Saveasiuleo, the king of the lower regions, 216 _sq._

Scalps of slain foes taken, 162

Sea, gods of the, 276 _sq._

---- eels sacred, 93, 94, 185

---- gull sacred, 93

---- -snake as god, 185

---- -urchin, family god in, 183

Second death, 29

Secret burial, 21

Semites sacrifice first-born sons, 89

Serfdom, alleged, in Hawaii, 385

Shadow, soul associated with, 205 _sq._

Sham fights at obsequies of Samoan chiefs, 211, 212;
at Melanesian funerals, 212;
after a death, 234, 235, 236, 303

Shark-gods, 227, 276

Shark's teeth, omens from, 191

Sharks as ministers of justice, 77;
gods in, 96, 182;
sacred, 93;
still-born children turned into, 398, 403;
worshipped in Hawaii, 402 _sqq._

Shells (_Murex namoces_) in which the souls of the dead were supposed
to lodge, 325

Shortland, E., 6 _n._^2

Sick p