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CHAPTER XVI
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| THE MAKING AND THE POWERS OF MEDICINE MEN Traditional spiritual healers and leaders, often responsible for dealing with the supernatural and healing the sick.; VARIOUS FORMS OF MAGIC | 522 |
CHAPTER XVII
| METHODS OF OBTAINING WIVES This chapter discusses the complex social laws and marriage systems governing how unions are formed between different kinship groups. | 554 |
CHAPTER XVIII
| MYTHS RELATING TO THE SUN, MOON, ECLIPSES, ETC. | 561 |
CHAPTER XIX
| CLOTHING, WEAPONS, TOOLS, AND DECORATIVE ART | 567 |
APPENDIX A
| THE NAMES OF THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE The original text uses "Natives." | 637 |
APPENDIX B
| THE WILYARU An important final stage of initiation for men. CEREMONY OF THE ARABANA Original: "Urabunna." TRIBE, TOGETHER WITH REFERENCES TO MR. GASON’S Samuel Gason (1845–1897) was a police officer whose 1874 account of the Diyari people was an influential early ethnography. ACCOUNT OF THE DIYARI Original: "Dieri (Dieyerie)." TRIBE | 640 |
APPENDIX C
| TABLE OF THE MEASUREMENTS This refers to anthropometry, the historical practice of recording human physical dimensions for comparative study. OF TWENTY MALES AND TEN FEMALES | 643 |
GLOSSARY OF NATIVE TERMS USED . . . 645
. . . 661
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