“Then my father said, ‘We will go up to Baiame’s Camp.’ [Amongst the Wiradjuri, Baiame is the high god, and Daramulun is his son.  What ‘little Daramuluns’ may be is not very clear.] He got astride a thread, and put me on another, and we held by each other’s arms.  At the end of the thread was Wombu, the bird of Baiame.  We went up through the clouds, and on the other side was the sky.  We went through the place where the doctors go through, and it kept opening and shutting very quickly.  My father said that, if it touched a doctor when he was going through, it would hurt his spirit, and when he returned home he would sicken and die.  On the other side we saw Baiame sitting in his camp.  He was a very great old man with a long beard.  He sat with his legs under him, and from his shoulders extended two great quartz-crystals to the sky above him.  There were also numbers of the boys of Baiame, and of his people who are birds and beasts. [The totems.]

“After this time, and while I was in the bush, I began to bring crystals up; but I became very ill, and cannot do anything since.”

November, 1911.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.—­It is impossible to provide a bibliography of so vast a subject, even when first-class authorities only are referred to; whilst selection must be arbitrary and invidious.  Here books written in English are alone cited, and those mostly the more modern.  The reader is advised to spend such time as he can give to the subject mostly on the descriptive treatises.  A few very educative studies are marked by an asterisk.  In many cases, to save space, merely the author’s name with initials is given, and a library catalogue must be consulted, or a list of authors such as is to be found, e.g. at the end of Westermarck’s works.

A. THEORETICAL

GENERAL.—­E.B.  Tylor, Anthropology* (best manual); Primitive Culture* (the greatest of anthropological classics); Lord Avebury’s works; Anthropological Essays presented to E.B.  Tylor.

ANTIQUITY OF MAN.—­W.J.  Sollas, Ancient Hunters and their Modern Representatives (best popular account).  Subject difficult without special knowledge, to be derived from, e.g. Sir J. Evans (Stone Implements); J. Geikie (Geology of Ice Age), etc.  See also Brit.  Mus.  Guides to Stone Age, Bronze Age, Early Iron Age.

RACE AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—­A.C.  Haddon, Races of Man and The Wanderings of Peoples (best short outlines to work from); fuller details in J. Deniker, A.H.  Keane; and, for Europe, W.Z.  Ripley.  See also Brit.  Mus.  Guide to Ethnological Collections.

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND LAW.—­J.G.  Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy*; L.H.  Morgan, Ancient Society*; E. Westermarck, History of Human Marriage*; E.S.  Hartland, Primitive Paternity; A. Lang, The Secret of the Totem; N.W.  Thomas, Kinship Organization and Group Marriage in Australia; H. Webster, Primitive Secret Societies.