Death and resurrection at initiation, ceremony of, 431, 434 _sq._;
pretence of, at initiation, 254 _sq._, 261, 302

Death-dances, 293 _sq._;
of the Torres Straits Islanders, 179 _sqq._

Deaths from natural causes, disbelief of savages in, 33 _sqq._;
attributed to sorcery, 136, 203;
set down to sorcery or ghosts, 203, 268, 270

Deceiving the ghost, 237, 273, 280 _sqq._, 328

Deceiving the spirits, 298

Deification of the dead, 24, 25;
of parents, 439

Deity consumes soul of offering, 297

Demon carries off soul of sick, 194

Demons as causes of disease and death, 36 _sq._

Demonstrations, extravagant, of grief at a death, dictated by fear of
the ghost, 271 _sqq._

Dene or Tinneh Indians, their ideas as to death, 39 _sq._

Departure of ghost thought to coincide with disappearance of flesh from
bones, 165 _sq._

Descent of the living into the nether world, 300, 355

Descriptive and comparative anthropology, their relation, 230 _sq._

Descriptive method in anthropology, 30

Desertion of house after a death, 195, 196 _n._ 1, 210, 248, 275, 349,
400;
of village after a death, 275

Deserts as impediments to progress, 89, 90

Design emblematic of totem, 168

Destruction of house after a death, 210

---- of life and property entailed by the belief in immortality, 468
_sq._

---- of property of the dead, 174, 459;
motive for, 147 _sq._, 327

Development arrested or retarded in savagery, 88 _sqq._

Dieri, the, 138;
their burial customs, 144

Differentiation of function in prayer, 332 _sq._

Disbelief of savages in death from natural causes, 34 _sqq._

Disease supposed to be caused by sorcery, 35 _sqq._;
demons regarded as causes of, 36 _sq._;
recognised by some savages as due to natural causes, 55 _sq._;
special modes of disposing of bodies of persons who die of, 162, 163.
_See also_ Sickness

Diseases ascribed to ghosts, 257

Disinterment of the bones of the dead, 225, 294

Dissection of corpse to discover cause of death, 53 _sq._

Divination to discover cause of death, 35, 36, 37 _sq._, 38, 39 _sq._,
44, 45 _sq._, 50 _sqq._, 53 _sq._, 136;
by liver, 54;
by dreams, 136, 383;
by the skulls of the dead, 179;
to discover sorcerer who caused death, 240 _sq._, 249 _sq._, 257, 402;
by bow, 241;
by hair to discover cause of death, 319;
by means of ghosts, 389 _sq._;
to discover ghost who has caused sickness, 382

Divinity of kings, 16;
of