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Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia

Heinrich August Edward Meyer

出版	Printed and published for Government by G. Dehane, 1846
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gx9JAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Brief description from birth - care of child during infancy - infanticide practiced on deformed, weak or illegitimate children or those making more that two in family; food allowed & restrictions on various members; initiation of young men, giving of girls in marriage & account of ceremony; construction of shelters by women, methods of catching fish, birds & animals & cooking preparations; magic used for killing enemies, treatment of illnesses by medicine man; different methods of burial practices - myths related; bodily ornamentation of men for tribal dances, with participation of women at Mootabaringar; legend of rain & origin of languages; also In Native tribes of South Australia, 1879; 183-206.