[990] See above, p. 108.
[991] There are phratries bearing the names Kilpara (crow) and Mukwara. This is the explanation of the myth itself, which is reported by Brough Smyth (I, pp. 423-424).
[992] Brough Smyth, I, pp. 425-427. Cf. Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 486. In this case, Karween is identified with the blue heron.
[993] Brough Smyth, I, p. 423.
[994] Ridley, Kamilaroi, p. 136; Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 585; Mathews, J. of R. S. of N.S. Wales, XXVIII (1894), p. 111.
[995] See above, p. 145. Cf. Father Schmidt, The Origin of the Idea of God, in Anthropos, 1909.
[996] Op. cit., p. 7. Among these same people, the principal wife of Baiame is also represented as the mother of all the totems, without belonging to any totem herself (ibid., pp. 7, 79).
[997] See Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 511 f., 513, 602 ff.; Mathews, J. of R.S. of N.S. Wales, XXXVIII, p. 270. They invite to these feasts not only the tribes with whom a regular connubium is established, but also those with whom there are quarrels to be arranged; the vendetta, half-ceremonial and half-serious, take place on these occasions.
[998] See above, p. 155.
[999] There is one form of ritual especially which we leave completely aside; this is the oral ritual which must be studied in a special volume of the Collection de l'Année Sociologique.