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The names of persons deceased are not spoken of. There are individuals in the one camp who bear the same personal name. If one of their namesakes' dies, the others will change their name to tǎn-yoo by itself. or else adopt some name bearing reference to the deceased, prefixed with "wou" - (cf wou-oo, the Breath etc.sect.11): thus wou-bǔn-jǎ = Breath, Particular tract where deceased was buried, wou-wǒt-chǐn-yoo = Breath, was burnt (in reference to the cremation) etc.
Certain terms only used in slanging, anger etc. expressive of
the generative organs etc, must not be employed in polite society: such a delinquency however would be a breach of etiquette rather than a breach of "tabool".
34. Trade. The articles of home production for purposes of trade are dilly-bags, spears, wommeras, pipe-clay (within recent years - see sect. 5), best yam-sticks, shields and swords (in the old days), several kind of gum and resins (for fixing spears etc) red ochre. These would be bartered for stingaree barb spears, shell ornaments, yellow ochre, pipe-clay (in the olden days), shields and swords (within recent years). There are no particular individuals to effect the exchange, each one acting on his own behalf, nor are they any restrictions as to which of their neighbours they may barter with. The principal time of barter is during the laying season at King's Lake country ie. whenever there happens to be a sufficient supply of food to attract them. There is apparently no conception of relative values. Though not a regular practice, the members of the same tribe do interchange. There is a division of labour in the labour market in the sense that each one manufactures that which he is most deft at. The men make the spears, wommeras, canoes, bark-troughs, and some of the netted dilly-bags for which they occasionally make the strings: the women however make most of the string things and when engaged at the basket dilly-bags, the men very often chew the bark for them. The boys and the girls com-[end of page]