The Secret of the Totem

by Andrew Lang

[29] Geographical Society of Halle, Proceedings, 1883, p. 53.

[30] Notes on Some Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the McDonnell Ranges, belonging to the Arunta Tribe. Gillen, Horn Expedition, iv. p. 183.

[31] J. A. I., N.S., p. 278.

[32] Ibid., i. pp. 284, 285. Dr. Roth has conjectured that phratries were introduced "by a process of natural selection" to regulate the food supply. But how did they come to regulate marriage? (Aborigines of North-West Central Queensland, pp. 69, 70.)

[33] See Northern Tribes, pp. xiii, xiv, 173.

[34] Dorsey, Omaha Sociology. Siouan Cults. Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-1882, pp. 238, 239; 1889-1890, p. 537. Frazer, Totemism, p. 24. For Torres Islands, J. A. I., N.S., i. pp. 5-17.

[35] Northern Tribes, pp. 224, 225.

[36] Spencer and Gillen, p. 169.

[37] Natives of South-East Australia, p. 545.

[38] Spencer and Gillen, pp. 182, 183.