Note 99.1 — Chapter IV · Notes

For examples of the attempt to multiply edible plants in this fashion, see The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, ii. 97 sqq. The reported examples of similar attempts to assist the multiplication of animals seem to be rarer. For some instances see George Catlin, O-Kee-Pa, a Religious Ceremony and other Customs of the Mandans (London, 1867), Folium Reservatum, pp. i.-iii. (multiplication of buffaloes); History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri (London, 1905), i. 209 sq. (multiplication or attraction of buffaloes); Maximilian Prinz zu Wied, Reise in das innere Nord-America (Coblentz, 1839-1841), ii. 181, 263-267 (multiplication or attraction of buffaloes); Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. (1904) p. 271 (multiplication of turtles); J. Roscoe, “Further Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Baganda,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxxii. (1902) p. 53; id., The Baganda (London, 1911), p. 144 (multiplication of edible green locusts); S. Gason, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiv. (1895) p. 174 (multiplication of edible rats); id., “The Dieyerie Tribe,” in Native Tribes of South Australia (Adelaide, 1879), p. 280 (multiplication of dogs and snakes).