NORTH QUEENSLAND ETHNOGJJAPHY.' 



Bulletin No. 9. 



BriuAL CereiMonies, and Disposal of the Dead. 



By AValteu E. Roth, Magistrate of tlie Ponieroon District,. 



British Guiana; late Chief Protector of Aborigines, Queensland ; 



C<K"responding Member of the Anthropological Society, Berlin^ 



the Anthropological Institute, London, etc. 



(Plates lxviii.-lxxi\ ., figs. oG-GO). 



Contents. 



Sect. 1. Introduction. 



2. Pennefather River Ceremonies. 



3. Lower Gulf of Carpentaria Coast. 



4. Princess Charlotte Bay. 



5. Cape Bedford. 



(). Bloomfield River. 



7. Tally River. 



8. Russell River. 



9. Boulia District. 



10. Cloncurry District. 



11. Upper Georgina River District. 



12. Rockhampton District. 



13. Brisbane District. 



1 . The interpretation of many of the gruesome details embodied 

 in the following pages will be rendered intelligible by bearing in 

 mind that, speaking generally, the main purport of the ceremonies 

 connected with the disposal of the dead is to avenge the deceased, 



' Bulletins 1-8 inchisive wore presented to both Houses of Piirlianient in 

 Brisbane (see Queensland Parliamentary Papers, 1901-1900), and subse- 

 quently printed and piiblislied by the Government Printer (George 

 Arthur Vauglian). The eollections, on which much of tlic matter con- 

 tained in these " Bulletins " depends, liaving now ])assod into tJie 

 possession of tlie Trustees of the Austrahan Museum, ])r. Eofli's notes, 

 will from time to time apj)ear in tlie " Records." — Editor. 



