[269] Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 165.

[270] Indian Tribes, I, p. 420; cf. I, p. 52. This etymology is very doubtful. Cf. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (Smithsonian Inst. Bur. of Ethnol., Pt. II, s.v., Totem, p. 787).

[271] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, III, 184; Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of the American Indians, in Tenth Report, 1893, p. 377.

[272] Hearne, Journey to the Northern Ocean, p. 148 (quoted from Frazer, Totemism, p. 30).

[273] Charlevoix, Histoire et description de la Nouvelle France, V, p. 329.

[274] Krause, Tlinkit-Indianer, p. 248.

[275] Erminnie A. Smith, Myths of the Iroquois, in Sec. Rep. of the Bur. of Ethnol., p. 78.

[276] Dodge, Our Wild Indians, p. 225.

[277] Powell, Wyandot Government, in First Rep. of the Bur. of Ethnol., 1881, p. 64.

[278] Dorsey, Omaha Sociology, in Third Rep., pp. 229, 240, 248.