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Lamboam, the nether world of the dead, 292; offerings to the dead, 292;
appeasing the ghost, 292 sq.; funeral and mourning customs, dances in
honour of the dead, offerings thrown into the fire, 293 sq.; bones of the
dead dug up and kept in the house for a time, 294 sq.
Lecture XIV.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of German

and Dutch New Guinea
The Tami Islanders of Huon Gulf (continued), their doctrine of souls
and gods, pp. 296 sq.; dances of masked men representing spirits, 297;
worship of ancestral spirits and offerings to them, 297 sq.; life of the
souls in Lamboam, the nether world, 299 sq.; evocation of ghosts by
the ghost-seer, 300; sickness caused by ghosts, 300 sq.; novices at
circumcision supposed to be swallowed and disgorged by a monster,
301 sq.; meaning of the bodily mutilations inflicted on young men at
puberty obscure, 302 sq. The natives of Dutch New Guinea, 303-323;
the Noofoors of Geelvink Bay, their material culture and arts of life,
303-305; their fear and worship of the dead, 305-307; wooden images
(korwar) of the dead kept in the houses and carried in canoes to be used
as oracles, 307 sq.; the images consulted in sickness and taken with the
people to war, 308-310; offerings to the images, 310 sq.; souls of those
who have died away from home recalled to animate the images, 311;
skulls of the dead, especially of firstborn children and of parents,
inserted in the images, 312 sq.; bodies of young children hung on trees,
312 sq.; mummies of dead relatives kept in the houses, 313; seclusion
of mourners and restrictions on their diet, 313 sq.; tattooing in honour
of the dead, 314; teeth and hair of the dead worn by relatives, 314 sq.;
rebirth of parents in their children, 315.
The natives of islands off the west coast of New Guinea, their wooden
images of dead ancestors and shrines for the residence of the ancestral
spirits, 315 sq.; their festivals in honour of the dead, 316; souls of
ancestors supposed to reside in the images and to protect the house and
household, 317.
The natives of the Macluer Gulf, their images and bowls in honour of
the dead, 317 sq.
The natives of the Mimika district, their burial and mourning customs,
their preservation of the skulls of the dead, and their belief in ghosts,
318.
The natives of Windessi, their burial customs, 318 sq.; divination after
a death, 319; mourning customs, 319 sq.; festival of the dead, 320 sq.;

wooden images of the dead, 321; doctrine of souls and of their fate
after death, 321 sq.; medicine-men inspired by the souls of the dead,
322 sq.; ghosts of slain enemies driven away, 323.
Lecture XV.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Southern
Melanesia (New Caledonia)
The Melanesians in general, their material culture, p. 324; Southern
Melanesia, the New Caledonians, and Father Lambert's account of
them, 325; their ideas as to the spirit land and the way thither, 325 sq.;
burial customs, 326; cuttings and brandings for the dead, 326 sq.;
property of the dead destroyed, 327; seclusion of gravediggers and
restrictions imposed on them, 327; sham fight in honour of the dead,
327 sq.; skulls of the dead preserved and worshipped on various
occasions, such as sickness, fishing, and famine, 328-330; caves used
as charnel-houses and sanctuaries of the dead in the Isle of Pines,
330-332; prayers and sacrifices to the ancestral spirits, 332 sq.;
prayer-posts, 333 sq.; sacred stones associated with the dead and used
to cause dearth or plenty, madness, a good crop of bread-fruit or yams,
drought, rain, a good catch of fish, and so on, 334-338; the religion of
the New Caledonians mainly a worship of the dead tinctured with
magic, 338.
Evidence as to the natives of New Caledonia collected by Dr. George
Turner, 339-342; material culture of the New Caledonians, 339; their
burial customs, the skulls and nails of the dead preserved and used to
fertilise the yam plantations, 339 sq.; worship of ancestors and prayers
to the dead, 340; festivals in honour of the dead, 340 sq.; making rain
by means of the skeletons of the dead, 341; execution of sorcerers, 341
sq.; white men identified with the spirits of the dead, 342.
Lecture XVI.--The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Central
Melanesia
Central Melanesia divided into two archipelagoes, the religion of the
Western Islands (Solomon Islands) characterised by a worship of the
dead, the religion of the Eastern Islands (New Hebrides, Banks' Islands,
Torres Islands, Santa Cruz Islands) characterised by a worship of

non-human spirits, pp. 343 sq.; Central Melanesian theory of the soul,
344 sq.; the land of the dead either in certain islands or in a
subterranean region called Panoi, 345; ghosts of power and ghosts of
no