556 Gunnar Landtman. 



216, 247, 252, 414, 453; narratives of women in child-bed, no. 215, 216; if a child is 

 contemplated, the husband must not cease cohabiting with his wife before the making 

 of the child is completed, no. 7, p. 460, foot-note; spirits of women dead in child-bed, no. 

 78; women in child-bed become malignant beings, no. 157; a man must not-go out 

 hunting, etc, while his wife is pregnant, no. 298. Birth: a man who had sexual inter- 

 course with the ground, after which a child was born in the ground, no. 21, p. 118; a 

 woman who brought forth certain vegetables, no. 44 E, 264; a hawk brought forth by a 

 woman, p. 227; children born by female animais in cohabitation with men, no. 228 — 231; 

 the woman who fed on cassowary meat or eggs, and subsequently gave birth to a boy 

 with one leg like that of a cassowary, no. .369; children who were born after their 

 mother's death, no. 469, 470; a girl who had a child although she was not properly married, 

 p. 487; preventing a child-birth from taking place, no. 254. Miscellaneous instances: magie 

 practised on a new-born boy in order to make the girls love him when he has grown 

 up, no. 454, 454 A; the navel-cord, no. 22, p. 485, 487, no. 457 C. See Marriage, Sexual 

 life, Women. 



Blood, no. 88, 338, 450. 



Bridge; constructing a temporary bridge and raft, p. 85, 209. 



Bullroarer, no. 261. 



Burial and mourning customs, p. 12, 117, no. 69, 75, 77, 86, 100, p. 213, 215 sq., 218, 240, no. 

 245, 248, 318, 328, 329, p. 396, no. 476, 477; the use of funeral platforms, p. 12, no. 

 2 A, 36 C, p. 118, no. 1.34 A; the importance of burying dead friends, p. 431; transfixing 

 dead bodies on sharp sticks at the bottom of a hole in the ground, no. 357; dead bodies 

 left without burial, p. 233, 235; dead people not buried in the ordinary burying ground, 

 no. 178; cutting up and burning the dead bodies of evil beings and animais, p. 219,228, 

 no. 157, 168 B, 187, 189, 252, 252 F, 329, 388, 408, 413 D, F, G, 417, 431; throwing 

 them into the water, no. 141, 143, 179, 181, 183; ideas regarding dead bodies, no. 27; 

 abandoning a garden where a dead body was lying, p. 404; précautions taken by some 

 men who had sexual connection with a dead woman, p. 398; bones and other parts of 

 dead bodies used in magic, no. 112, 122; preserving the skulls of dead relatives, no. 2 A, 

 36 A, C, 38, 39, 40; using a skull for a drinking cup, no. 40, p. 1 19; the man who 

 wanted to come to the land of the dead clean and shaven, no. 471 A. Destroying part 

 of the property belonging to a deceased person, no. 328; people do not want to take the 

 belongings of a person who has perished, no. 329. , See Death, Spirits of the dead. War 

 and fighting. 



Calendar, p. 482, no. 451. See Astronomy. 



Cannibalism, see Food. 



Canoës; description of dug-out canoës, pp. 8 sqq , no. 59, 94. 294; the making of canoës, no. 137, 

 pp. 494 sq.; a canoë is made out of the trunk of a tree which was floating about, no. 

 52; magic practised in the making of a canoe, p. 166, no. 494, canoës made out of solid 

 logs, their equipment, no. 54, 59, p. 151, no. 294, p. 499; „half canoës", p. 9, no. 3 A, 

 p. 152, 155, no. 147, p. 389, no. 420, 490; the first canoe brought from Mawâta to Sàibai, 

 no. 59; carioe traffic, no. 59, 153 B, 294, 295, 353, 364, p. 499; giving skulls in 



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