[4] When two groups, despite the isolating tendency of the habit of capture, did at length form a union sufficiently close to permit of marriage by consent between the respective group members, then, with capture as regards outsiders still rife amongst them, we can understand how the symbol would come to be attached to the peaceful connubium.
[5] 'Phratries' are here meant, where the word 'clan' is used, or local totem groups.—A. L. Cf. Note, p. 260.
[6] The exact relation of each to the females being defined by the classificatory system by generations.
[7] As mentioned by Tylor.
[8] Here I really do not know what 'clan' is meant to denote—'phratry,' I think.—A. L.
[9] See Mr. Crawley's 'Sexual tabu' theory of this avoidance, Mystic Rose, pp. 399-414.—A. L.
[10] Apparently 'clans' here = totem kins, Mr. Atkinson seems to think that totem kins kept on being added to the two original 'phratries.'—A. L.
[11] Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation, p. 13 et seq.
[12] Hlonipa, to avoid mention of his name, &c.
[13] Origin of Civilisation, p. 14. Lubbock quoting 'Report of Select Committee on Aborigines,' Vict. 1859, p. 73. Tylor, Early History of Mankind, p. 288.