[223] Ibid., 25. See the somewhat similar conclusion of Atkinson, The Primal Law, 280-94; and compare the criticism of Cunow by Lang, Social Origins, 37, 112-18.
[224] Kohler, Zur Urgeschichte der Ehe, 3, 14 ff., 151 ff. This paper supplements the author's earlier Recht der Australneger, ZVR., VII, 321 ff., 329 ff., 337 ff., where Fison's general conclusions are accepted and the literature cited.
[225] "Der Totemglaube gehört zu den bildensten, lebensvollsten, religiösen Trieben der Menschheit. In dem Totemismus liegt die künftige Familien- und Staatenbildung im Keime."—Kohler, op. cit., 27.
[226] Ibid., 62.
[227] Ibid., 39 ff., 41, 53 ff., 64, 65.
[228] Ibid., 65, 163, 164.
[229] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, 56.
[230] Ibid., 56, 57. "A man can only marry women 'who stand in the relationship of nupa, that is, are children of his mother's elder brother's blood or tribal, or, what is the same thing, of his father's elder sister.'" The mother of a man's nupa is "mura to him and he to her, and they must not speak to one another." This applies to a possible mother, i. e., the sister of the father: ibid., 61, 62.
[231] Op. cit., 58.
[232] Mystic Rose, 473, 474.