[1168] Ibid., pp. 81, 100, 112, 115.
[1169] Nor. Tr., p. 310.
[1170] Nor. Tr., pp. 285-286. Perhaps the object of these movements of the lance is to pierce the clouds.
[1171] Nor. Tr., pp. 294-296. It is curious that, on the contrary, the Anula regard the rainbow as productive of rain (ibid., p. 314).
[1172] The same process is employed among the Arunta (Strehlow, III, p. 132). Of course we may ask if this effusion of blood is not an oblation designed to win the powers which produce rain. However, Gason says distinctly that this is a way of imitating the water which falls.
[1173] Gason, The Dieri Tribe, in Curr, II, pp. 66-68. Howitt (Nat. Tr., pp. 798-800) mentions other rites of the Dieri for obtaining rain.
[1174] Ethnological Notes on the Western Australian Aborigines, in Internationales Archiv. f. Ethnographie, XVI, pp. 6-7. Cf. Withnal, Marriage Rites and Relationship in Man, 1903, p. 42.
[1175] We presume that sub-totems may have tarlow, for, according to Clement, certain clans have several totems.
[1176] Clement says a tribal family.
[1177] We shall explain below (p. 362) why this is incorrect.