Urabunna tribe of Central Australia, 1, 10; tribal divisions, 11;
marriage restrictions, 12; descent through the female line, 20,
69;
exogamous and totemic division, 54; intermarry with the Arunta,
69;
communal marriage among, 69; less developed than the Arunta, 75;
terms of relationship, 93; status implied by relationship terms,
101;
Spencer and Gillen on customs, 101; marriage laws, 104;
‘second masters’ of married women, 104; Piraungaru custom, 105
Veddahs, avoidance of father and daughter, 274; of mother and son,
274
Victoria, Northern, tribal tradition of, 64
Village names, ancient Hebrew, 300
Village sobriquets, English, 173, 295
Westermarck, Dr., on promiscuous sexual relationship, 9;
on the matriarchal theory, 20;
on ape etiquette, 25;
his theory of exogamy, 33;
on terms of relationship, 95;
on brother-and-sister avoidance, 240;
on Annamese and Hottentot relationships, 240;
on marriage by Rapture, 248
Western Australia totem, Sir George Grey on, 144
Wilken’s, Dr., theory of totemic origin, 150;
depends on the patriarchal theory, 151
Witchetty Grub, Australian totem, 170
Woeworung, the, 41; myths, 66, 139, 159, 163
Women, supremacy of, supposed period of, 9
Women, dominion of, 20
Yakuts, avoidance among the, 275
Zapotecs and their tona, 144
Zulu superstition, 136, 143
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