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Religious ideas and practices—continued.

Sacrifice, no trace of, among Euahlayi, 9.

Sea, influence of could not be cause of germs of religion—coastal tribes of the north not credited with All Father belief, xv.

Social progress not the cause nor the necessary concomitant of advance in religious ideas, xiii-xviii, 9, 10.

Spirits of the dead, destiny of—Euahlayi belief, xxvi, 90.

Riddles, appreciation of, 132.

Ridley's, Rev. Mr., book for Biblical instruction of the Kamilaroi, 4, 5.

Rites and ceremonies—

Arunta more advanced than Euahlayi, circumcision, etc., xiii. See also Names of ceremonies, Boorah, etc.

Sea—influence of coastal conditions in begetting social and religions progress alleged; central and northern coastal tribes not credited with All Father belief, xv, xvi.

Shadow spirits, 29.

Shell secreted in a tree, 101.

Shields, 124.

Sick nurse—armlet, etc., worn if patient dies, 40.

Sick persons, cure of, see Cures.

Sins—three unforgivable sins, penalty in the lower world, etc., 78.

Skins of blacks—smearing with fat of fish or game, 110.

Smallpox, ghastly traditions of, 39.

Smell of strangers, objections to, precautions, etc., 37, 126.

Snakes of Bahloo, 50.

Social advance—

Marriage rules—ascending grades, phratry and further sub-divisions, xi, xiii.

Religious ideas, social progress not the cause nor necessary concomitant of advance in, xiii-xviii, 9, 10.

Social organisation of the Euahlayi —

Summary, 22.

See also Totem system, Marriage rules, etc.

Southern Cross, legend, 97.

Southern Crown—Mullyan, the eaglehawk, among Euahlayi, 97.

Spears, 123.

Spencer and Gillen, Messrs., ix, xiii, xvi, l0

Spencer, Mr. H., x, 3, 5.

Spirits—

Destiny of spirits of the dead—Euahlayi beliefs, xxvi, 90.

Meetings attended by spirits of the dead, 35.

Number of spirits of which each person was possessed, 35.

One person might embody many spirits—caution against drink, 46.

Visible to others besides wirreenuns, 46.

See also Names of spirits.

Spring, legend, 100.

Springs—spirit-excavated springs of water, 103.

Stars, legends concerning, 95-98, 103.

Swans—Enchanted swans, 140.

Swimming—custom supposed to ensure each child being a good swimmer, 54.

Ta-Ta-thi tribe, 10.

Teeth—

Children born with, no earthly father alleged, 51.

Deterioration of, among younger generation of blacks, 125.

Front tooth knocked out—Boorah ceremony, 74, 75.

Theddora tribe, 4.

Thomas, Mr. N. W., 5, 6, 24.

Tomahawks, 124.

Totem seen in a dream, warning of coming evil, 28, 83.

Totem system—

Definition of 'totem,' xii.

Eating or using of totems allowed among Euahlayi—quarrels caused by speaking evil of or mimicking a totem, 20.

Hereditary and individual totem, differences, 21.

Hereditary and local totemism, theories as to which was the earlier usage, xxi-xxvi.

List of names of Euahlayi totems, with their multiplex totems, 15-20.

Locality, derivation of totem from among Arunta and Kaitish, xviii-xxi.

Numerically strongest totem kins among Euahlayi, 20.