BOOK II. The Elementary Beliefs

THE ELEMENTARY BELIEFS

CHAPTER I

TOTEMIC BELIEFS

The Totem as Name and as Emblem

I.--Definition of the clan--The totem as name of the clan--Nature of the things which serve as totems--Ways in which the totem is acquired--The totems of phratries; of matrimonial classes 102

II.--The totem as emblem--Totemic designs engraved or carved upon objects; tatooings or designs upon the body 113

III.--Sacred character of the totemic emblem--The churinga--The nurtunja--The waninga--Conventional character of totemic emblems 119