Note 533 — Chapter IV · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—end The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem
Joseph Ward Swain translation
In general, it seems as though these transmissions from father to son never take place except when the father is a shaman or a magician. This is also the case among the Thompson Indians (Teit, The Thompson Indians, p. 320) and the Wiradjuri, of whom we just spoke.