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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1

Note 162 — Introductory Essay on Caste (continued 2)

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Totemism and Exogamy, ii. p. 473, iii. pp. 34, 76, 101, 225, 272, 308, 360. The Australians have secret Churinga names, the Churingas apparently representing the spirits of ancestors which have returned to the totem. (Spencer and Gillan, ibidem, Appendix A.)

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