[421] The ties between a totemic local group and its hunting-grounds are based on the whole cycle of totemic ideas on reincarnation, supernatural conception; on the Oknanikilla and Ertnatulunga. The reader must be referred to the works of Messrs. Spencer and Gillen and Strehlow and to what is said about these points below in connection with the native ideas on conception ([Chap. VI.]).
[422] J. and Pr. R.S.N.S.W., xl. p. 108.
[423] Moreton Bay. J.D. Lang, p. 335, 336.
[424] J. Mathew, i. p. 128.
[425] J. Mathew, i. p. 129.
[426] E. Palmer, J.A.I., xiii. pp. 278, 279.
[427] Roth, Eth. Stud., p. 133, § 226.
[428] Idem, Bull. viii. p. 8.
[429] Ibid. and Proc. R.S.Q., pp. 50, 51.
[430] Bull. v. pp. 18, 23.