t was from the Ojibwas that our word 'totem' was
taken.

[846] A similar role, somewhat vague, is assigned to two
supernatural beings in Australia (Spencer and Gillen,
_Native Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 388; cf. p. 246).

[847] Gatschet, _Migration Legend of the Creeks_, p. 177 ff.
It was expiatory, and was accompanied by a moral
reconstruction of society, a new beginning, with old scores
wiped out. Cf. the Cherokee Green Corn dance (see article
"Cherokees" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_).

[848] Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, p. xviii. The Pawnee had a
fairly well-developed pantheon, and a civil government based
on rank (chiefs, warriors, priests, magicians). They lived
in endogamous villages; in every village there was a sacred
bundle, and all the people of the village were considered to
be descendants of the original owner of the bundle.

[849] Will and Spinden, _The Mandans_ (_Papers of the
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology_,
Harvard University, vol. iii, 1906), p. 129 ff.

[850] J. W. Fewkes, _The Winter Solstice Ceremony at Walpi_
(reprint from _The American Anthropologist_, vol. xi, 1898),
with bibliography.

[851] Fewkes, _Journal of American Ethnology and
Archaeology_, iv, and _Journal of American Folklore_, iv.

[852] The stocks or groups are, going from north to south:
the Dene or Athabascans (middle of Alaska and running east
and west); the Tlingit (Southern Alaska); the Haidas (Queen
Charlotte Islands and adjacent islands); the Tsimshians
(valleys of the Nass and Skeena rivers and adjacent
islands); the Kwakiutl (coast of British Columbia, from
Gardiner Channel to Cape Mudge, but not the west coast of
Vancouver Island); the Nootkas (west coast of Vancouver
Island); the Salish (eastern part of Vancouver Island, and
parts of British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, and Montana);
the Kootenay (near Kootenay Lake and adjoining parts of the
United States). See the authorities cited by Frazer in
_Totemism and Exogamy_.

[853] Sec. 445 f.

[854] Cf. the divergent native accounts of the Melanesian
_buto_ (Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 31 ff.).

[855] In North America, in the Iroquois, Algonkin, Maskoki
(Creek), and Siouan stocks; in Central America and South
America; in Borneo and East Africa; and elsewhere.

[856] R. B. Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_ (Central
Californ