TRIBAL SIM IKTY MB 



not mean a deity wlii-h is extraordinary in itself, l.ut 

 things which are strange, or n\-' tou. 



us the Indian has no idea of one Great and Ruling 

 Spirit as we have, but h- hHi.-v.- in a mult it nde of spirits 

 animating all surroundinu' objects. 1 * 



One of the most int. tituti-niH of primitiv.- 



people is "Tot'-mUm." r dHiih-d a totem as, "a 



>at-rial nl.j.M-ts whiHi a savage regards with 

 sniMTstitioiis ivH|i,.,-t. lii-IirviiiLr that tln-n- exists b-tu 

 him ai m.-mlM-r of the class an intimate and alto- 



gether sp< ' I0 Because t -u is of' 



dMdj :<! with thr social and ivl; ' ':-titutions 



riiniti\ j,.-,.;.!,. it is our of the most ilhnninating sub- 



Is of study for th. anthiopologist. Th< -everal 



features which various autbriti-s have believed to be 

 symptomatic of totemism. I>r. Qoldenweiser has sum- 

 iiiari/i-d th. -in as follows: 

 An exogamous clan. 



(2.) A Han namr derived from the totem. 



(3.) A u> attitude towards the tot^m; as a 



"friend," u broth< 



(4.) Taboos, or restrictions against killinir. e.t 

 (so - touHiing and se- m. 



in drsr,-nt t'mm the totnn. 17 



Si i. ii>m among the Australian tribes and among 



tli.- Indians of I'.ritM: Columbia presents certain Hiai 



itures mentioned above, we will study these 

 ]>rimiti\v groups and tlv tion to totemism. It 



necessary to recogni/f that the totem is of three general 

 kinds: the Han totrin, common to all inrmhers of the 



W. "The Algonkin Manitou," Jo*r. Am*r. Folk-Is**. n>l. 

 PP. 183-190. FVmwr, J. O. Totemi**, p. 1. 



IT Golden welter, A. A. 'Totrmimn, An Analytical Study." Jow. Amtr. 

 Folk-Lor*, vol. xxiii, April-Jane, 1010, no. IxxzriU. 



