LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By one of the Euahlayi Tribe (Omitted from etext)

A NATIVE CARRYING A MESSAGE-STICK
TWO NATIVES READY FOR A CORROBOREE
THE FUNERAL OF A NATIVE. A BARK COFFIN
A NATIVE SINGING TO HIS OWN ACCOMPANIMENT
A NATIVE GRINDING GRASS SEED ON A DAYOORL-STONE
A NATIVE WITH SHIELD AND WADDY IN FRONT OF HIS CAMP





INTRODUCTION



No introduction to Mrs. Langloh Parker's book can be more than that
superfluous 'bush' which, according to the proverb, good wine does not
need. Our knowledge of the life, manners, and customary laws of many
Australian tribes has, in recent years, been vastly increased by the
admirable works of Mr. Howitt, and of Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. But
Mrs. Parker treats of a tribe which, hitherto, has hardly been
mentioned by anthropologists, and she has had unexampled opportunities
of study. It is hardly possible for a scientific male observer to be
intimately familiar with the women and children of a savage tribe. Mrs.
Parker, on the other hand, has had, as regards the women and children
of the Euahlayi, all the advantages of the squire's wife in a rural