The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[535] Totemism and Exogamy, I. p. 254.

[536] Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 388.

[537] Totemism and Exogamy, III. p. 13.

[538] Langloh Parker, The Euahlayi, p. 22.

[539] Native Tribes of Central Australia, ch. vi.; Northern Tribes of Central Australia, ch. ix.

[540] There is, however, another possible reason for the eating by the clan or by its Headman of some portion of the food which they profess to supply to the rest of the tribe—namely, that it expresses a prior claim to some sort of proprietorship, which is then waived.

[541] Totemism and Exogamy, IV. pp. 55-7.

[542] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes North. Ter. Aust., p. 324.

[543] Totemism and Exogamy, III. pp. 104-5.

[544] The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, II. ch. ix.