[894] F. Boas, The Kwakiutl, p. 393 f.
[895] Cf. Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, iii, 450 ff.
[896] This process is similar to the gradual reduction of the European independent barons to the position of royal officers.
[897] See below, § 633 f.
[898] As, for example, by the Marathas of the Bombay Presidency (Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, ii, 276 ff.).
[899] Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock), Prehistoric Times, 2d ed., p. 598, and 6th ed., p. 610; id., Origin of Civilisation (1902), p. 275 ff.; and his Marriage, Totemism, and Religion.
[900] Herbert Spencer, Fortnightly Review, 1870, and Principles of Sociology i, § 171.
[901] This view is provisionally indorsed by E. B. Tylor, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxviii.
[902] One such case is mentioned in Codrington's Melanesians, p. 33.
[903] Frazer, Golden Bough (1890), ii, 332 ff. This theory has since been abandoned by Frazer (Totemism and Exogamy, iv, 54 f.).