NORTH QUEENSLAND ETHNOGRAPHY. 

 Bulletin No. 11. 



Miscellaneous Papei 3. 



1. Tabu and other forms of Restriction. 



2. Counting and Enumeration. 



.".. Signals on the Road ; Gesture Language. 

 !. Progressive Ivoko-yimider Exercises. 



By Waltkk E. Rorii, Magistrate of the Pomeroon District, 

 British Guiana ; late Chief Protector of Aborigines, Qr.< 

 land; Corresponding Member of the Anthropological 

 Societies, Berlin and Florence, the Anthropological Institute, 

 London, etc. 



(Plates xvii.-xxi.. figs. 0-7.) 



Part I. 

 Tabu, and other Forms of Restriction. 

 (to accompany Bulletin 8). 



( JONTENTS. 



Sect. 



1. Certain prohibitions, varieties of "Tabu," are in force 

 throughout the whole of North Queensland, and their disregard 

 is either met by punishment at the instigation of the Council of 

 Elders 1 , if discovered, or else by some form of disease, accident 



1 Roth— Hull. S— Sect. I. 



