[804] Teit, Thompson River Indians, p. 95.
[805] Swanton, Tlingit Myths, and Jesup North Pacific Expedition, v, 231; Boas, The Kwakiutl, pp. 323, 336 f.
[806] Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, p. 679; in the Louisiade group belief in direct descent is said to exist (p. 743).
[807] Cf. the remarks of Boas in the Introduction to Teit's Thompson River Indians.
[808] On the other hand, the Kurnai, who are not totemic, refrain, apparently, from eating their sex-patrons.
[809] This report was made in 1841, before the natives had come in contact with the whites.
[810] In the Banks Islands the restrictions of eating relate to the patrons of individual persons; see Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, xxxix, 165 f.
[811] Rivers, The Todas, Index, s.v. Food, restriction on.
[812] Cf. Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 239, note 169; Franciscan Fathers, Ethnologic Dictionary p. 507.
[813] Teit, Thompson River Indians, p. 77.