Note 31 — Chapter XVIII · GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS
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Frazer, Totemism, p. 26; Edinburgh, 1887. “They differ from each other in the mode of dressing their heads, each following the custom of the nation or band to which they belong, and adhering to the form made use of by their ancestors from time immemorial.” Carver, Travels, p. 229. Cf. Miss Fletcher, Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. I, no. 11, pp. 116, et seq., for modes of cutting hair among Omahas; and Hariot, plate XI, for statement as to medicine-man. See Captain Smith, p. 139, for an account of the snake-skin head-dress of the chief Priest.