Note 549 — Chapter IV · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—end The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Kamilaroi and Kurnai, pp. 200-203; Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 149; Petrie, op. cit., p. 62. Among the Kurnai, these bloody battles frequently terminate in marriages of which they are, as it were, a sort of ritual precursor. Sometimes they are merely plays (Petrie, loc. cit.).