Abstract
Covers Pennefather, Mitchell, Nassau, Staaten River areas, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape Bedford, Bloomfield, Tully, Russell River, Burke, Cloncurry, Upper Georgina River, Rockhampton, Keppel Island, Brisbane; deals with burial, cannibalism, inquests, divination for vengeance; mourning, cremation, tree-platform burial, notes on mummification; plastering of head and cutting skin of mourners; mutilation & skinning of corpse; account of disposal of the dead by Koko-Yimidir woman (with literal & free translation)
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Roth, W. E. (1907). North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 9. Burial ceremonies, and disposal of the dead. Records of the Australian Museum, 6(5), 365–403. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.6.1907.1021
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