Parker Katie Langloh. The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. THE ALL FATHER, BYAMEE
CHAPTER III. RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS
CHAPTER IV. THE MEDICINE MEN
CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT THE MEDICINE MEN AND LEECHCRAFT
CHAPTER VI. OUR WITCH WOMAN
CHAPTER VII. BIRTH – BETROTHAL – AN ABORIGINAL GIRL FROM INFANCY TO WOMANHOOD
CHAPTER VIII. THE TRAINING OF A BOY UP TO BOORAH PRELIMINARIES
CHAPTER IX. THE BOORAH AND OTHER MEETINGS
CHAPTER X. CHIEFLY AS TO FUNERALS AND MOURNING
CHAPTER XI. SOMETHING ABOUT STARS AND LEGENDS
CHAPTER XII. THE TRAPPING OF GAME
CHAPTER XIII. FORAGING AND COOKING
CHAPTER XIV. COSTUMES AND WEAPONS
CHAPTER XV. THE AMUSEMENTS OF BLACKS
CHAPTER XVI. BUSH BOGIES AND FINIS
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The following pages are intended as a contribution to the study of the manners, customs, beliefs, and legends of the Aborigines of Australia. The area of my observation is mainly limited to the region occupied by the Euahlayi tribe of north-western New South Wales, who for twenty years were my neighbours on the Narran River. I have been acquainted since childhood with the natives, first in southern South Australia; next on my father's station on the Darling River, where I was saved by a native girl, when my sisters were drowned while bathing. I was intimate with the dispositions of the blacks, and was on friendly terms with them, before I began a regular attempt to inquire into their folk-lore and customary laws, at my husband's station on the Narran, due north of the Barwon River, the great affluent of the Murray River.
My tribe is a neighbour of that mentioned by Mr. Howitt as the 'Wollaroi,' 'Yualloroi,' or 'Yualaroi.' [Howitt, NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA, pp. 57, 467, 694, 769.] I spell the tribal name 'Euahlayi'; the accent is on the second syllable – 'You-ahl-ayi'; and the name is derived from the tribal word for the negative: EUAHL, or YOUAL, 'No,' as in the case of the Kamilaroi (Kamil, 'No'), and many other tribes.
