They had house posts and door posts, and they carved their totems on the posts, and they made carvings of their guardian spirit.
They were hardly less than the totems of clans, the insignia of rulers, or the potent charms of a priesthood.
Only names of theirTotems or tribes, my lord," answered Brooks.
In an open space before the great lodge, all the chieftains of the different Totems or tribes assembled; and the usual circle was formed around the great war-post of the Black Eagle.
Opposite totems only can marry, and the child usually takes the mother's totem.
There are fourtotems common to these, the Whale, the Wolf, the Eagle, and the Crow.
M170 Sex totems and clan totems may both be based on the notion that men and women keep their external souls in their totems, whether these are animals, plants, or what not.
However, as I have observed, sex totems have been found nowhere but in Australia; so that as a rule the savage who practises totemism need not have more than one soul out of his body at a time.
Each totem clan had a certain number of honorific totems or crests, and these might be assumed by any member of the clan who fulfilled the required conditions; but they could not be acquired by members of another clan.
Kurnai, a tribe of Gippsland, sex totems and fights concerning them among the, ii.
The honorific totems of the Carrier Indians may perhaps correspond in some measure to the sub-totems or multiplex totems of the Australians.
As to personal totems or guardian spirits (manitoos) among the North American Indians, see Totemism and Exogamy, iii.
Kulin nation of South-Eastern Australia, sex totems in the, ii.
That breach of old rule, we shall try to show, arises from the peculiar animistic philosophy of the Arunta, by virtue of which totems are no longer totems of descent, but are otherwise obtained.
They freely offer all other sorts of mythical explanations as to what their totems originally were, as to the origin of their connection with their totems, but never say that their totems are their 'soul-boxes.
May we not conclude that no clear account, or theory, of the origin and purpose of totems and totem kins has been laid before us?
Society was totemic, but the totems were not exogamous; rather endogamous of the two.
Or, perhaps, having two totems and only two, Raven and Wolf, they deliberately decided that members of neither group should marry within itself; but should always take wives from the other group.
I shall later try to show, that, originally, totems did regulate marriage, among the Arunta.
I do not know whether it has been observed that the totems are, as a rule, objects which may be easily drawn or tattooed, and still more easily indicated in gesture-language.
That there are, and have been, mice totems and mouse family names among Semitic stocks round the Mediterranean is proved by Prof.
Among well-known savage totemsnone is more familiar than the sun.
In the mound building days, they reared totems of earth, and probably dwelt on top of them.
To different totems attach different degrees of rank and dignity; and those of the Bear, the Tortoise, and the Wolf are among the first in honor.
The Toukaway Indians of Texas, one of whose totems is the wolf, have a ceremony in which men, dressed in wolf skins, run about on all fours, howling and mimicking wolves.
The Zuni are also divided into clans, the totems of which agree closely with those of the Moquis, and one of theirtotems is the turtle.
However, as I have observed, sex totems occur nowhere but in Australia; so that as a rule the savage who practises totemism need not have more than one soul out of his body at a time.
Accordingly the bat and the owl, the Emu Wren and the Superb Warbler, may properly be described as totems of the sexes.
The Indians of the deer totems remained quiet and silent, and they did not venture out of their lodges.
Footnote 15: From a brief account of the Fire Ceremony, or Engwurra of certain tribes in Central Australia, it seems that religious ceremonies connected with Totems are the most notable performances.
Kulin nation of South-Eastern Australia, sex totems in the, xi.
See also Totems and Sex totem Totem animal, artificial, novice at initiation brought back by, xi.
Nocturnal creatures the sex totems of men and women, xi.
Totems in Central Australia, magical ceremonies for the multiplication of the, i.
Totems will serve the ends of commerce, and a great revival of their use is now seen.
It was among the Indians along the West coast of America that the science and art of totems reached its highest development, though they have a world-wide usage and go back in history to the earliest times.
Out of this use of totems as owner marks and signs grew the whole science of heraldry and national flags.
Totems in Town A totem is an emblem of a man, a group of men, or an idea.
There are not less than one hundred common totems used in our streets today.
In short, the various animals or plants are the totems of their respective clans.
But the Arunta had not made totems hereditary, but accidental, so all the children of one crowd of mothers were placed in division A, all other children in division B.
But this is possible among the Arunta and Kaitish, because their totems are acquired by pure accident, are not hereditary, and all totems exist, or may exist, in division A and also in division B.
They reckon descent in the female line: they have 'phratries' and four matrimonial classes, with totems within the phratries.
You listen in dread of a tragedy; you hear the totem and multiplex totems of her opponent being scoffed at, strung out one after another, deadly insult after deadly insult.
Their magic, if it brings rain, benefits their totemsat large, but for each totem in particular, no Euahlayi totem kin does magic.
Moreover, even among the Arunta, certain totemsgreatly preponderate in each of the two exogamous intermarrying divisions of the tribe.
Amongst othertotems were once the Bralgah, Native Companion, and Dibbee, a sort of sandpiper, but their kins are quite extinct as far as our blacks are concerned; the birds themselves are still plentiful.
Yet, where such stones do not exist, the usage of acquiring totems by locality does not exist; even where the belief in reincarnation and in local centres haunted by totemic spirits is found in North Australia.
Arunta totems were, originally, hereditary among the Arunta, as everywhere else, and no totem occurred in both exogamous divisions.
The mothers in each division would have children of all the totems, and thus the same totems now appeared in both of the exogamous divisions.
The bird above the head of each female figure seems to be a badge of office, possibly the totems which are held by the women and given to the children.
These animals probably represent in some way the totems of the man or woman in question and are shown in place of the human figure.
We find nothing more akin to it than the relation borne by the Samoan gods to the various totems in which they are supposed to be manifest.
Mr. Frazer, again, thinks less of the evidence for Totems among 'Aryans' than I was inclined to do.
More aboutTotems The origin of totemism is unknown to me, as to Mr. McLennan and Dr.
Now in 1858 totems were only spoken of in Lafitau, Long, and such old writers, and in Cooper's novels.
Mr. Max Muller wishes that 'those who write about totems and totemism would tell us exactly what they mean by these words.
Not a hint is given on the subject, so we must leave the doctrine of fire totems to its mysterious discoverer.
The origin of totemsis as much a problem as the origin of local gods.
Gods and Totems Our author refers to unnamed writers who call Indra or Ammon a totem (i.
Heraldry and Totems The Ottawas are armigeri, are heraldic; so are the natives of Vancouver's Island, who have wooden pillars with elaborate quarterings.
Therefore, 'instead of looking for idols, or for totems and fetishes, we must learn and accept what the savages themselves are able to tell us.
I well know that I myself am apt to press a theory of totems too far, and in the following pages I suggest reserves, limitations, and alternative hypotheses.
But I here confess that while beast-dances and wearing of skins of sacred beasts are common, to prove these sacred beasts to be totems is another matter.
He attacks the excesses of which some sweet anthropological enthusiasts have been guilty or may be guilty, such as seeing totems wherever they find beasts in ancient religion, myth, or art.
Men of other totem clans also partake of their totems sacramentally at these Intichiuma ceremonies (Spencer and Gillen, op.
In front of the houses of the chiefs and leading men of the Haidas are erected posts carved with the totems of the inmates.
In like manner, the natives of the Upper Darling represented on their shields figures in imitation of the totems of their tribes.
Or these carvings one above the other represent the paternal totems in the female line, which, descent being in the female line, necessarily change from generation to generation.
I was informed that the men used to scarify the shoulder or the calf of the leg with the totem device, or they carried about with them pieces of their totems or effigies of them.
The chief of Le Loutre's mission, who called himself Major Jean-Baptiste Cope, came to Halifax with a deputation of his tribe, and they all affixed their totems to a solemn treaty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "totems" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
