[93] R. Parkinson, Dreissig Jahre in der Suedsee (Stuttgart, 1907), p. 272.  The natives told Mr. Parkinson that the confinement of the girls lasts from twelve to twenty months.  The length of it may have been reduced since Dr. George Brown described the custom in 1876.

[94] J. Chalmers and W. Wyatt Gill, Work and Adventure in New Guinea (London, 1885), p. 159.

[95] H. Zahn and S. Lehner, in R. Neuhauss’s Deutsch New-Guinea (Berlin, 1911), iii. 298, 418-420.  The customs of the two tribes seem to be in substantial agreement, and the accounts of them supplement each other.  The description of the Bukaua practice is the fuller.

[96] C.A.L.M.  Schwaner, Borneo, Beschrijving van het stroomgebied van den Barito (Amsterdam, 1853-1854), ii. 77 sq.; W.F.A.  Zimmermann, Die Inseln des Indischen und Stillen Meeres (Berlin, 1864-1865), ii. 632 sq.; Otto Finsch, Neu Guinea und seine Bewohner (Bremen, 1865), pp. 116 sq..

[97] J.G.F.  Riedel, De sluik—­en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua (The Hague, 1886), p. 138.

[98] A. Senfft, “Ethnographische Beitraege ueber die Karolineninsel Yap,” Petermanns Mitteilungen, xlix. (1903) p. 53; id., “Die Rechtssitten der Jap-Eingeborenen,” Globus, xci. (1907) pp. 142 sq..

[99] Dr. C.G.  Seligmann, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxix. (1899) pp. 212 sq.; id., in Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. (Cambridge, 1904) pp. 203 sq.

[100] Dr. C.G.  Seligmann, in Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits, v. (Cambridge, 1904) p. 205.

[101] L. Crauford, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiv. (1895) p. 181.

[102] Dr. C.G.  Seligmann, op. cit. v. 206.

[103] Walter E. Roth, North Queensland Ethnography, Bulletin No. 5, Superstition, Magic, and Medicine (Brisbane, 1903), pp. 24 sq.

[104] Walter E. Roth, op. cit. p. 25.

[105] Dr. C.G.  Seligmann, in Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. (Cambridge, 1904), p. 205.

[106] From notes kindly sent me by Dr. C.G.  Seligmann.  The practice of burying a girl at puberty was observed also by some Indian tribes of California, but apparently rather for the purpose of producing a sweat than for the sake of concealment.  The treatment lasted only twenty-four hours, during which the patient was removed from the ground and washed three or four times, to be afterwards reimbedded.  Dancing was kept up the whole time by the women.  See H. R. Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes of the United States (Philadelphia, 1853-1856), v. 215.

[107] Dr. C.G.  Seligmann, in Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. 201 sq.