Arabia_,
chap. viii (Semites).

[877] See above, Sec.Sec. 441 ff., 466, and below, Sec. 526; Frazer,
_Totemism and Exogamy_, Index, s.vv. _Animals_ and _Totems_.

[878] See above, Sec. 443 ff.

[879] So, also, in Northeastern Asia, in the Japan
archipelago (the Ainu), and in low African tribes.

[880] Where sexual license before marriage prevails, young
girls are allowed to go to these houses.

[881] H. Webster, _Primitive Secret Societies_.

[882] G. Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, p. 60 ff.

[883] Mary Kingsley, _West African Studies_, p. 384, and
_Travels in West Africa_, p. 532 ff.; Ellis, _Yoruba_, p.
110.

[884] H. Webster, _Primitive Secret Societies_, p. 164 ff.

[885] Frazer, _Totemism and Exogamy_, i, 495 ff.

[886] Frazer, loc. cit. Cf. A. Lang, _Secret of the Totem_,
p. 138.

[887] _Jesup North Pacific Expedition_, vi, i, 32 ff., 43
ff.

[888] So worship was offered to the Roman _genius_ (Horace,
_Carm._ iii, 17; _Epist._ i, 7, 94).

[889] A. B. Ellis, _E['w]e_, p. 105; _Tshi_, p. 156;
_Yoruba_, chap. vii.

[890] Turner, _Samoa_, p. 78 f. So the [Greek: kourotrophos]
(Farnell, in _Anthropological Essays presented to E. B.
Tylor_).

[891] W. H. Dall, _Alaska and its Resources_, p. 145, cited
by Frazer, _Totemism and Exogamy_, iii, 442 f.

[892] The acquisition of a supernatural inspirer by a shaman
is analogous to this custom, but belongs in a somewhat
different category: see below, Sec. 540.

[893] Miss Alice Fletcher, "Indian Ceremonies" (in _Report
of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology_,
Harvard University, 1883).

[894] F. Boas, _The Kwakiutl_, p. 393 f.

[895] Cf. Frazer, _Totemism and Exogamy_, iii, 450 ff.

[896] This process is similar to the gradual reduction of
the European independent barons to the position of royal
officers.

[897] See below, Sec. 633 f.

[898] As, for example, by the Marathas of the Bombay
Presidency (Frazer, _Totemism and Exogamy_, ii, 276 ff.).

[899] Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock), _Prehistoric Times_,
2d ed., p. 598, and 6th ed., p. 610; id., _Origin of
Civilisation_ (1902), p. 275 ff.; and his _Marriage,
Totemism, and Religion_.

[900] Herbert Spencer, _Fortnightly Review_, 1870, and
_Principles of Sociology_ i, Sec. 171.

[901] This view is provisionally indorsed by E. B. Tylor, in
_Journal of the Anthropologi