[217] Letherman, in Smithsonian Report, 1855, pp. 295, 296 (The Navajo tribe).

[218] Cf. Matthews, Navaho Legends, pp. 22-26, where the assertions of Dr. Letherman are quoted and opposed.

[219] Cook. (1st) Voyage, p. 388; Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, p. 426; Spencer, Principles of Sociology, iii. p. 78.

[220] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, ii. p. xii.

[221] Schoolcraft, l.c. i. p. 18.

[222] Lubbock, l.c. p. 426.

[223] Kane, Wanderings, p. 179.

[224] See infra, p. 175.

[225] With regard to the traditional art of the Australian natives compare Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes, pp. 220 sq. 473, 485; Lloyd, Tasmania and Victoria, p. 466.

[226] Cf. e.g. Steinen, Durch Central Brasilien, pp. 266, 267, on a Yuruna dance.