Note 450 — Chapter III · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class

For example, the clan of the Tea-tree includes the grasses, and consequently herbivorous animals (see Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 169). This is undoubtedly the explanation of a particularity of the totemic emblems of North America pointed out by Boas. "Among the Tlinkit," he says, "and all the other tribes of the coast, the emblem of a group includes the animals serving as food to the one whose name the group bears" (Fifth Rep. of the Committee, etc., British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 25).