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Besides totems proper animals, plants, &c., revered by 
a whole tribe), there are also what may be called personal 
totems and sex totems. Thus, besides the totem of his clan, 
a man may have a private totem of his own ; if he is of the 
Wolf clan, he may have snakes for his personal totem. In 
Australia, besides the clan totem and personal totem, each 
sex has, in some tribes, a totem, the men calling themselves 
by the name of a particular bird and refusing to injure any 
bird of that species, and the women doing the same with 
another sort of bird. 
i. Are the natives divided into tribes, clans, or castes ? 
Enumerate these tribes, clans, or castes, with their subdivisions, 
as far as you can ascertain them. 2. Do the members of 
each tribe, clan, or caste &c., revere any species of natural 
objects, as a particular kind of animal or plant, &c. ? If so, 
in what way do they show their respect for the animal, plant, 
&c. ? Are they forbidden to kill and eat it ? What do they 
do on meeting one of the sacred animals, &c. ? How do they 
treat its dead body when they find one ? What do they think 
would happen to them if they were to act disrespectfully to 
it; as, for instance, if they killed and ate the animal or plant ? 
Enumerate all the kinds of animals, plants, &c., thus revered 
by the tribes or clans. 3. Do all the members of each tribe, 
clan, &c., call themselves by the name of the totem (sacred 
animal or plant, &c.) ? If they do, how is each individual 
distinguished ? Are individuals called after parts of the 
sacred animal, as the tail, shoulder, tongue, &c. ? Sometimes 
the clan is named after one kind of animal, but reveres an 
animal of different species. Where this happens, in what 
relation do these two kinds of animal, or plant, &c\, stand to 
the tribe and to each other? 4. What stories do the natives 
tell of the totem (sacred animal, plant, &c.) of the tribe ? 
How do they explain its sanctity ? Do they think that they 
are descended from it ? 
5. May a man marry a woman of the same totem as him¬ 
self, or may he not? Thus, if he is a Wolf, may he marry a 
Wolf? If he may not marry a woman of his own totem, is 
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