[13] Early History of Institutions, pp. 310, 311.
[14] Westermarck, History of Human Marriage, pp. 53-57.
[15] Mr. John Mathew declares that 'jealousy is a powerful passion with most aboriginal husbands' in Australia. Messrs. Spencer and Gillen, on the other hand, represent the aboriginal husband as one of the most complacent of his species, jealousy being regarded as 'churlish.' Messrs. Spencer and Gillen are decidedly the better authorities. Mathew, Jour. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii. 404. Westermarck, p. 57. Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 99.
[16] Studies in Ancient History, 1876, p. 41.
[17] The late Major Powell, of the American Bureau of Ethnology, used gens of a totem kin with descent in the male line, clan of such a kin with descent in the female line, and his school follows him. Mr. Howitt, on the other hand, uses 'horde' for a local community with female, 'clan' for a local community with male descent.
[18] 'The Seri Indians,' by W. J. McGee. Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1898.
[19] 'Siouan Sociology,' Report of American Ethnological Bureau, 1897, p. 213.
[20] Studies in Ancient History, second series, p. 265.
[21] Studies in Ancient History, second series, p. 46. In an appendix to Mr. Morgan's Ancient Society, Mr. McLennan's terms are severely criticised.
[22] I shall call each set indicated by a totem name a 'totem group,' if the members live together; a 'totem kin,' if they are scattered through the tribe.