187 James Dawson, _Australian Aborigines_ (Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, 1881), pp. ci. _sq._
M63 Severe penalties inflicted for breaches of the custom of seclusion.
188 Rev. William Ridley, "Report on Australian Languages and Traditions," _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, ii. (1873) p. 268. Compare _id._, _Kamilaroi and other Australian Languages_ (Sydney, 1875), p. 157.
189 A. W. Howitt, _The Native Tribes of South-East Australia_ (London, 1904), pp. 776 _sq._, on the authority of Mr. J. C. Muirhead. The Wakelbura are in Central Queensland. Compare Captain W. E. Armit, quoted in _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, ix. (1880) pp. 459 _sq._
M64 Dread and seclusion of menstruous women in the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea, Galela, and Sumatra.
_ 190 Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits_, v. (Cambridge, 1904) pp. 196, 207.
191 Ch. Keysser, "Aus dem Leben der Kaileute," in R. Neuhauss's _Deutsch Neu-Guinea_ (Berlin, 1911), iii. 91.
192 M. J. van Baarda, "Fabelen, Verhalen en Overleveringen der Galelareezen," _Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_, xlv. (1895) p. 489.
193 J. L. van der Toorn, "Het animisme bij den Minangkabauer der Padangsche Bovenlanden," _Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_, xxxix. (1890) p. 66.
M65 Dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the tribes of South Africa, Central and East Africa.
194 W. H. I. Bleek, _A Brief Account of Bushman Folk-lore_ (London, 1875), p. 14; compare _ibid._, p. 10.
195 Rev. James Macdonald, "Manners, Customs, Superstitions and Religions of South African Tribes," _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xx. (1891) p. 138; _id._, _Light in Africa_, Second Edition (London, 1890), p. 221.
196 Dudley Kidd, _The Essential Kafir_ (London, 1904), p. 238; Mr. Warren's Notes, in Col. Maclean's _Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs_ (Cape Town, 1866), p. 93; Rev. J. Macdonald, _Light in Africa_, p. 221; _id._, _Religion and Myth_ (London, 1893), p. 198. Compare Henri A. Junod, "Les conceptions physiologiques des Bantou Sud-Africains et leurs tabous," _Revue d'Ethnographie et de Sociologie_, i. (1910) p. 139. The danger of death to the cattle from the blood of women is mentioned only by Mr. Kidd. The part of the village which is frequented by the cattle, and which accordingly must be shunned by women, has a special name, _inkundhla_ (Mr. Warner's Notes, _l.c._).