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The death ceremonies of chiefs and head men, Mr. Young told me, are very weird and imposing, with wild feasting, dancing, and singing. At this little place there are some eight totem poles of bold and intricate design, well executed, but smaller than those of the Stickeens. As elsewhere throughout the archipelago, the bear, raven, eagle, salmon, and porpoise are the chief figures.

It would be a shame that Mighty Hand should bring water to the eyes of his white brother's papoose, but who can say if the Fiery Totem be not calling this day? Behold!"

He said, when I asked him what harm it would do for, say, a Beewee totem man to come from the Gulf country, where his tribe had never had any communication with ours, and marry a girl here, that all Beewees were originally changed from the Beewee form into human shape. From the statements just given, it will be seen that the Euahlayi are in the Kamilaroi stage of social organisation.

Here and there was a small clearing where the clans had erected their ingenious and hideous totem poles, out of place in the ancient beauty of the wood. The ferns brushed his waist, the roar of the river came to his ears, the forest had never looked more primeval, more wooing to a man burdened with civilization, but Rezanov gave it less heed than usual, although he had turned to it instinctively.

"Then the the fiery totem foolish?" he questioned shyly, and the other Indian rejoined solemnly "The totem of the Dacotahs wise very wise. It speak to Thunder-maker by night, and tell him this." Red Fox nodded. But it was not the nod of agreement with the falsehood so much as at recognition of the lie. "Thunder-maker great medicine," he said, with a slight sneer. "But Red Fox hear much.

Thus the wolves might call themselves Claudii, from their chief's name, and, giving up belief in descent from a wolf, might look back to a fancied ancestor named Claudius. The result of these changes will be that an exogamous totem kin, with female descent, has become a gens, with male kinship, and only the faintest trace of exogamy.

The origin of this function of the crest and its relation to the function of the totem is not clear; it may have arisen in different ways in different places, or different conceptions may have been combined in the same place.

He then went on to describe the totem pole, while his listeners became more and more excited. They got out an old map, and after studying it Tad said: "It is the Taku Pass that Stacy and I discovered. As it is undoubtedly yours, we relinquish all claim to the land." "How much do you want for the relinquishment?" asked Dawson. "Nothing.

So they ate the slain bear at a communal feast in which the tribesmen shared the guilt and celebrated their community with their totem and with each other.

The process by which the god ousted the beasts may perhaps be observed in Samoa. If this law be transgressed, the malefactor is supernaturally punished in a variety of ways. But, while each family has thus its totem, four or five different families recognise, in owl, crab, lizard, and so on, incarnations of the same god, say of Tongo.