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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 852 — Chapter VIII · THE IDEA OF THE SOUL

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Among the Wakelbura, where, according to Curr and Howitt, each matrimonial class has its own totems, the animal shows the class (see Curr, III, p. 28); among the Buandik, it reveals the clan (Mrs. James S. Smith, The Buandik Tribes of S. Australian Aborigines, p, 128). Cf. Howitt, On Some Australian Beliefs, in J.A.I., XIII, p. 191; XIV, p. 362; Thomas, An American View of Totemism, in Man, 1902, No. 85; Mathews, Journ. of the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, XXXVIII, pp. 347-348; Brough Smyth, I, p. 110; Nor. Tr., p. 513.

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