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GEORGE D-S-DUNBAR ON 



APPENDIX I. 



The following genealogies learnt in Kebang best describe one form at least of 

 the Abor ideas of creation. 



Table I. 



Donyi, the Sun. 

 I 



r i 



Ising = Ilinq (the stone) /. 

 (the tree) | ' 



in. 



Pedong 

 the rain 



See Table II. 



1 



DOUNG 



r 



IvINKAR 



killed by a falling 

 rock became a 

 spirit, and the 

 ghost that haunts.] 



1 



LlMUK 



Lost in the clouds and 



became NiponG, 

 the spirit of the waters. 



Table II. 

 Pedong, the Rain. 



Dobui 



Doni 



I 



DOMI 



BUISHI f 



NlNUR, 



Vada, worker 

 maker of in 



swords brass. 



and 

 knives. 



NlBO 

 Yasi, 



~1 



KARI, 

 makers 



MlGOM MlNYONG 



: quo (■ 1 



"Father of arrows, foreigners. Kuri Kumuing said to 



of all | have 



flesh ' ' and Toro i I gone up 



the first of (killed by y T river and 



singers and wild become a 



dancers. boar). Tibetan. 



DOBANG DORO 



I I 



Banji, Robo 

 maker (all spirits) 

 of cloths; 



'1 



I 



Dor i, Doshi, Dopang 

 father of father of | 



Riga; Simong. f ■) 



doubt- Panggi Pad am 



ful 



unless 



regarded 



as a 



patron 



saint. 



Table HI- 

 One of the Kebang Gams gave me the following 



Ising = Iling 



Pereng 

 (a small bird) 



I 

 a quo all birds. 







I 

 JEBI (the Rat). 

 A quo all burrowing and creeping things 

 are descended. 



The other Kebang Gam having traced the descent of the elephant Sita from 

 Pedong told the following nursery tale : — 



The elephant was a stupid and clumsy child and so his mother got angry with him 

 and hit him on the face with an axe. She tried to get it out, but it stuck and grew 

 there and became his trunk. But he was still very stupid and did not even try to 

 learn how to prepare his food, or winnow out the corn. So one day when they 

 were winnowing together she picked up the big winnowing fans, one in each hand and 

 hit him over the head with them— hard. So hard that they too stuck there and 

 became the great napping ears he has to this day. But yet he remained very foolish 

 and helpless and his mother threw the tongs at him one day when he was unusually 



