Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism

by C. Staniland Wake

[234] Mrs. Spier’s “Life in Ancient India,” p. 281.

[235] “Journey,” iii., 219.

[236] Op. cit., p. 120.

[237] “Juventus Mundi,” pp. 408, 411.

[238] “Kamilaroi and Kurnai,” p. 54.

[239] Mr. Fison alludes to the New Zealand practice of a woman’s suitors wrestling for her, which is called punarua. This word, he says, is the Hawaiian punalua, which denotes the common-right of tribal brothers to certain women (note, p. 153).

[240] “A Phrenologist among the Todas,” by Col. William E. Marshall, p. 213.

[241] Ditto, p. 226.

[242] “A Phrenologist among the Todas,” by Col. William E. Marshall, p. 43.

[243] “The Abode of Snow,” p. 233.