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Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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lingby throttling, or by a blow from a club, also occur. In i860, one-third of all thechildren born among the Narrinyeri were killed, every child that was born beforethe next elder could walk, all mis-shapen children, one or both of a pair of twins,at least half the children of white fathers owing to jealousy, female children, andfinally, children of marriages entered into unwillingly. But if it is once decidedthat a child is to be kept, the patience with which it is tended is unbounded. Inorder to secure its thriving, superstition enjoins that the navel string be placedround its neck, it is never bathed, but rubbed down with dry sand. As soon asa boy can walk, his father takes him with him on hunting and fishing expeditions, 366 THE HISTORY OF MANKIND instructs him in all accomplishments, and teaches him the traditions. The onlychilds play for the boys is weapon play, especially with the spear. From hisfourteenth or fifteenth year the youth takes part in war and other affrays, and at
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New South Wales women and child. (From a photograph.) sixteen or eighteen, when his beard begins to grow, he is admitted into thecircle of the men. The child receives a name as soon as it can walk, but new names are given onspecial occasions, as at the attainment of manhood. In naming the child it is THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY IN AUSTRALIA 367 customary to take account of his place among his brothers and sisters, and of hisbirthplace. The father and mother also assume new names from the birth ofone child to that of another. The origin of the female dual names is unknown. In consequence of the custom of never pronouncing the name of a deceasedperson, taken together with that of borrowing names from places, local peculiarities,animals, and events, a death is often followed by a change not only in the namesof all persons bearing the same name with the deceased, but also in geographicaland other appellations. To the proper name is added the tribal name, which istaken from some animate or inan

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