Note 458 — VII HUNTING AND FISHING RACES

Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes, p. 477. Wheeler (loc. cit., p. 149) says that ‘warfare only arises as a result of a blood feud, due to the killing of a member of one local group by a member of another local group, nearly always by magical means. But even this ground of offence is most generally settled by one of the methods of regular procedure above described.’ Since, as we have seen, the regular procedure seldom ends in the shedding of blood, many deaths thus pass unavenged.