849
Miss Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa, p. 447. Conversely among the central Australian tribes women are never allowed to witness the drawing of blood from men, which is often done for purposes of decoration; and when a quarrel has taken place and men's blood has been spilt in the presence of women, it is usual for the man whose blood has been shed to perform a ceremony connected with his own or his father or mother's totem. See Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 463.
850
A. B. Ellis, The Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast, pp. 125 sq.
851
E. B. Cross, “On the Karens,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, iv. (1854) pp. 311 sq.
852
A. Bastian, Die Völker des östlichen Asien, ii. 256, iii. 71, 230, 235 sq. The spirit is called kwun by E. Young (The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe, pp. 75 sqq.). See below, pp. 266 (#x_15_i19)sq.
853
Herodotus, ix. 110. This passage was pointed out to me by the late Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
854
Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, 100. Plutarch's words (μάλιστα ῥύπτεσθαι τὰς κεφαλὰς καὶ καθαίρειν ἐπιτηδεύουσι) leave room to hope that the ladies did not strictly confine their ablutions to one day in the year.
855
P. J. de Arriaga, Extirpación de la Idolatria del Piru (Lima, 1621), pp. 28, 29.
856
A. Bastian, op. cit. ii. 150; Sangermano, Description of the Burmese Empire (Rangoon, 1885), p. 131; C. F. S. Forbes, British Burma, p. 334; Shway Yoe, The Burman (London, 1882), i. 91.
857
E. Young, The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe (Westminster, 1898), p. 131.
858
J. Moura, Le Royaume du Cambodge, i. 178, 388.
859
Duarte Barbosa, Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century (Hakluyt Society, 1866), p. 197.
860
This I learned in conversation with Messrs. Roscoe and Miller, missionaries to Uganda. The system of totemism exists in full force in Uganda. No man will eat his totem animal or marry a woman of his own totem clan. Among the totems of the clans are the lion, leopard, elephant, antelope, mushroom, buffalo, sheep, grasshopper, crocodile, otter, beaver, and lizard. See Totemism and Exogamy, ii. 472 sqq.
861
David Porter, Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. Frigate“Essex” (New York, 1822), ii. 65.
862
Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz Îles Marquises (Paris, 1843), p. 262.
863
Le P. Matthias G – , Lettres sur les Îles Marquises (Paris, 1843), p. 50.
864
G. H. von Langsdorff, Reise um die Welt (London, 1812), i. 115 sq.
865
Max Radiguet, Les Derniers Sauvages (Paris, 1882), p. 156.
866
Capt. James Cook, Voyages, v. 427 (London, 1809).
867
Jules Remy, Ka Mooolelo Hawaii, Histoire de l'Archipel Havaiien (Paris and Leipsic, 1862), p. 159.
868
W. Ellis, Polynesian Researches
(London, 1832-36), iii. 102.
869
James Wilson, A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean (London, 1799), pp. 354 sq.
870
W. Colenso, “The Maori Races of New Zealand,” p. 43, in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1868, vol. i. (separately paged).
871
R. Taylor, To Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants,
p. 165. We have seen that under certain special circumstances common persons also are temporarily forbidden to touch their heads with their hands. See above, pp. 146 (#x_10_i25), 156 (#x_10_i37), 158 (#x_11_i3), 160 (#x_11_i3), 183 (#x_11_i29).
872
R. Taylor, l. c.