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home,&quot; simply from the habit of referring to an event which 

 occurred on its birthday, as a way of raising the thought of 

 the particular child meant. And if afterwards it gets such 

 a name as &quot;Squash-head,&quot; or &quot; Dirty-saddle &quot; (L)acotah 

 names), vt : The Great Archer,&quot; or u lie who runs up the 

 Hill &quot; (Blackfoot names), this results from spontaneously 

 using an alternative, and sometimes better, means of identi 

 fication. Evidently the like has happened with such less 

 needful names as titles. These have differentiated from 

 ordinary proper names, by being descriptive of some trait, 

 or some deed, or some function, held in honour. 



400. Various savage races give a man a name of re 

 nown in addition to, or in place of, the name by which he 

 was previously known, on the occasion of a great achieve 

 ment in buttle. The Tupis furnish a good illustration. 

 &quot; The founder of the [cannibal] feast took an additional 

 name as an honourable remembrance of what had been 

 done, and his female relations ran through the house shout 

 ing the new title.&quot; And of these same people Hans Stade 

 says, &quot; So many enemies as one of them slays, so many 

 names does he give himself; and those arc the noblest 

 among them who have many such names.&quot; In. Xorth 

 America, too, when a young Creek Indian brings his first 

 seal}), he is dubbed a man and a warrior, and receives a 

 &quot; war-name.&quot; Among the people of ancient Nicaragua, 

 this practice had established a general title for such: they 

 called one who had killed another in battle itt^diquc; and 

 culm was an equivalent title given by the Indians of the 

 Isthmus. 



That descriptive names of honour, thus arising during 

 early militancy, become in some cases official names, we see 

 on comparing evidence furnished by two sanguinary and 

 cannibal societies in different stages of advance. In Fiji, 

 &quot; warriors of rank receive proud titles, such as the divider 

 of a district, the waster of a coast, ( the depopulate! of ? 



