678 Riedel, _De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_, p. 137. 679 Riedel, _op. cit._ p. 292 _sq._ 680 Diodorus Siculus, i. 18. 681 W. Robertson Smith, _Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia_, p. 152 _sq._ 682 Valerius Flaccus, _Argonaut_, i. 378 _sq._:— “_Tectus et Eurytion servato colla capillo,_ _ Quem pater Aonias reducem tondebit ad aras._” 683 Homer, _Iliad_, xxiii. 141 _sqq._ 684 D. Porter, _Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean_, ii. 120. 685 Paulus Diaconus, _Hist. Langobard._ iii. 7. 686 Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_, iv. 387. 687 Numbers vi. 5. 688 J. A. E. Köhler, _Volksbrauch_, etc. _im Voigtlande_, p. 424; W. Henderson, _Folk-lore of the Northern Counties_, p. 16 _sq._; F. Panzer, _Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie_, i. 258; Zingerle, _Sitten, Bräuche und Meinungen des Tiroler Volkes_,2 Nos. 46, 72; J. W. Wolf, _Beitrage zur deutschen Mythologie_, i. 208 (No. 45), 209 (No. 53); Knoop, _Volkssagen, Erzählungen_, etc. _aus dem östlichen Hinterpommern_, p. 157 (No. 23); E. Veckenstedt, _Wendische Sagen, Märchen und abergläubische Gebräuche_, p. 445; J. Haltrieh, _Zur Volkskunde der Siebenbürger Sachsen_, p. 313; E. Krause, “Abergläubische Kuren u. sonstiger Aberglaube in Berlin,” _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, xv. 84. _ 689 Panjab Notes and Queries_, ii. No. 1092. 690 G. Gibbs, “Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America,” in _Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution_, 1866, p. 305; W. Dall, _Alaska and its Resources_, p. 202. The reason alleged by the Indians (that if the girls’ nails were cut sooner the girls would be lazy and unable to embroider in porcupine quill-work) is probably a late invention, like the reasons assigned in Europe for the similar custom (the commonest being that the child would become a thief). 691 Knoop, _l.c._ 692 Wolf, _Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie_, i. 209 (No. 57). 693 R. Taylor, _New Zealand and its Inhabitants_, p. 206 _sqq._ 694 Richard A. Cruise, _Journal of a Ten Months’ Residence in New Zealand_, p. 283 _sq._ Cp. Dumont D’Urville, _Voyage autour du Monde et à la recherche de La Pérouse. Histoire du Voyage_ (Paris, 1832), ii. 533. 695 E. Shortland, _Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders_, p. 108 _sqq._; Taylor, _l.c._ 696 J. Moura, _Le Royaume du Cambodge_, i. 226 _sq._ 697 See above, p. 111. 698 Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, i. 468 _sq._ 699 D. Porter, _Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean_, ii. 188. 700 J. Dawson, _Australian Aborigines_, p. 36.