Folklore as an Historical Science

by George Laurence Gomme

[312] Sproat's Scenes and Studies of Savage Life, 19. The use of the term "tribe" in this quotation is, of course, descriptive only. There is no tribal constitution among the Ahts, and "group" would have been the preferable term.

[313] Dr. W. H. Rivers' recently published work on the Todas is the best authority.

[314] Rivers, op. cit., 432, 455.

[315] Rivers, op. cit., cap. xxi. 504, 517.

[316] Rivers, op. cit., 452-456.

[317] Latham, Descriptive Ethnology, ii, 137.

[318] Bucher, Industrial Evolution, 56.

[319] Rev. George Taplin, The Narrinyeri; South Australian Aborigines, 40. Cf. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-east Australia, 710-720; Grierson, The Silent Trade, 22.

[320] Cf. Skeat and Blagden, Pagan Tribes of Malay Peninsula, i, 10.

[321] Graham, Bheel Tribes of Khandesh, 3.