Note 478 — Chapter III · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Thus in the Wild Cat clan, the designs carved on the churinga represent the Hakea tree, which is a distinct totem to-day (Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., pp. 147 f.). Strehlow (III, p. xii, n. 4) says that this is frequent.