The Euahlayi Tribe, A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

The following pages are intended as a contribution to the study of the manners, customs, beliefs, and legends of the Aborigines of Australia. The area of my observation is mainly limited to the region occupied by the Euahlayi tribe of north-western New South Wales, who for twenty years were my neighbors on the Narran River. I have been acquainted since childhood with the natives, first in southern South Australia; next on my father's station on the Darling River, where I was saved by a native girl, when my sisters were drowned while bathing. I was intimate with the dispositions of the blacks, and was on friendly terms with them, before I began a regular attempt to inquire into their folk-lore and customary laws, at my husband's station on the Narran, due north of the Barwon River, the great affluent of the Murray River. Read more...   Introduction Arunta Sacred Stones Introductory The All Father, Byamee Relationships and Totems Numerically Strongest Kin's The Medicine Men The Medicine Men and Leechcraft Our Witch Woman Birth--Betrothal--An Aboriginal Girl From Infancy to Womanhood The Training of a Boy Up to Boorah Preliminaries The Boorah and Other Meetings Chiefly as to Funerals and Mourning Something About Stars and Legends The Trapping of Game Foraging and Cooking Costumes and Weapons The Amusements of Blacks Bush Bogies and Finis Glossary B  C  D  E-H-I-K  M  N-O  P-Q-T-W-Y The Euahlayi Tribe, A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

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