The Folk-Tales of Ihc Kiwai Papuans. 559 



magic „medicines" applied to ornaments, no. 22, p. 286; the string of vvomen's grass 

 skirts used in magic, p. 166, 272, 485, 487, no. 454 B; people smear face and body vvith 

 mud in token of sorrow (smearing oneself in mourning, see Burial), no. 20, p. 98, 234; 

 365; decorating oneself in token of some certain deed. no. 349; decorating and painting 

 a pig like a man at the mogmii ceremony, p. 342. Mourning, dancing, and fighting ac- 

 coutrements, see Burial, Dances, and War; see al.so Sexual life. 



Eggs; associated with feitility, eggs of bush-fowl, cassowaries, and turtle used as garden „medi- 

 cines", no. 99, 414 A; turtle eggs from the Turtle ceremony used in magic, no. 285; how 

 tvvo bushfowl eggs were transformed into a man, no. 454 B; collecting eggs of the bush- 

 fowl, no. 138. 



Excréments, no. 44 F, 270, 268 B. 



Explanation of certain conspicuous features in nature as well as in animal and human life; 

 how certain creeks. rivers, and Channels were made, no. 46 (bis), p. 138 (bis), no. 116, 

 421; why there is always a rough sea and muddy water near Klwai and W'âboda, no. 

 46 C, D, p. 128; how a clear place was made in the bush at Madlri, rn). 117; why there 

 are many stones in Yam island, no. 54; how the reefs and sandbanks in the Torres 

 straits were made, no. 54, pp. 156 sq., 503; why the sea breaks at high water, p. 498; 

 how the swamp and water-hole in Boigu were made, no. 495; how lightning is caused, 

 no. 457; the origin of the différent quarters of the moon, p. 486, 487, no. 454 B; why 

 opossums have short ears, no. 435; why dögs are tormented by tlies, and wh\' they ha\e 

 to eat all sorts of food thrown away by the people, no. 435; why the tail and hind legs 

 of a certain rat became white, no. 263 B; why animais and birds are in enmiti' with each 

 other, p. 497; why the bodies of certain birds and fish have a distorted shape, and how 

 the peculiar habits of some animais originated, pp. 498 sq.; why crabs are plentiful.at 

 Måbudaväne, p. 194; how octopuses were made, p. 503; why there are many ant-hills in 

 Manävete, no. 47 B; how ants' nests came into coconut trees, no. 443; how certain wasps 

 became black and yellow, no. 447; why there are many fruit- and pandanus trees in Da- 

 väne, no. 48; how trees came to grow in Kiwai, no. 4.50; why coconuts have a hole and 

 two notches, no. 262 A, B, 263; why the leaf-axils ot coconut trees are provided with 

 fibrous envelopes, no. 262 B, G, E: why the number of coconut trees varies so much in 

 différent villages, no. B, C; why the trunks of some coconut palms are reddish, no. 262 

 E; why différent methods of skinning coconuts are in use, p. 322; why the Mao people 

 have ugly noses and the läsa people fine ones, no. 4 .\, B; why there is a wider space 

 between the thumb and index than between the other fingers, p. 52; why hair grovvs in 

 certain parts of the human body, pp. 495 sq.; the origin of women's menstruation, no. 

 279; why the canoës of the Toires straits islanders have a smell of decaying fish, p. 128; 

 why the Dfbiri people have inferior bows and arrovvs while bushmen in Däudai have fine 

 ones, no. 50; why the Måsingara people have no harpoons and do not spear dugong and 

 turtle, p. 503. 



Fabulous men and women, chapter II (no. 21—61); people with grotesque and monstrous bodies, 

 chapter XIV (no. 365 — 373); people engaged in fabulous occupations, chapter XV (no. 

 374—386); two women grown together back to back, no. 34, 35, p. 117, 118 (bis); the 



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