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[57] _Memoir of Central India_, vol. ii. p. 22.
[58] _La Cite antique_, 21st ed. pp. 66, 68.
[59] _La Cite antique_, 21 st ed. pp. 66, 68.
[60] _Nigeria_, quoted in _Sat.u.r.day Review_, 6th April 1912.
[61] _Religion of the Semites_, p. 96.
[62] See article Sunar for a discussion of the sanct.i.ty of gold and silver, and the ornaments made from them.
[63] _Michelia champaka_, a variety of the jack or bread-fruit tree.
[64] See article Darzi for further discussion of the use of sewn clothes in India.
[65] See articles on Bhulia, Panka, Kori and Julaha.
[66] Traill's _Account of k.u.maon, Asiatic Researches_, vol. xvi. (1828) p. 213.
[67] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Bari.
[68] Pointed out by Mr. Crooke.
[69] The Marathi name for the G.o.d Hanuman.
[70] _Linguistic Survey_, vol. iv., _Munda and Dravidian Languages_, p. 7.
[71] _Acacia catechu_.
[72] See article on Gond.
[73] _Linguistic Survey_, p. 15.
[74] Introduction to _The Mundas and their Country_, p. 9.
[75] _Linguistic Survey_, p. 277.
[76] See for this the article on Kol, from which the above pa.s.sage is abridged.
[77] Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii. p. 175.
[78] _Cochin Census Report_, 1901, quoted in Sir H. Risley's _Peoples of India_, 2nd ed. p. 115.
[79] This was permissible in the time of Asoka, _circa_ 250 B.C. Mr. V.A. Smith's _Asoka_, pp. 56, 58.
[80] Sir H. Risley's _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Tanti.
[81] See article Kanjar for a discussion of the connection of the gipsies and Thugs with the Kanjars.
[82] See article Chamar, para. 1.
[83] _Loha_, iron; _tamba_, copper; _kansa_, bra.s.s or bell-metal; _sona_, gold.
[84] _Kanch_, gla.s.s.
[85] _Phul_, flower; _haldi_,turmeric; _jira_, c.u.min.
[86] _Crotalaria juncea_. See article Lorha for a discussion of the objections to this plant.
[87] _Morinda citrifolia_. The taboo against the plant is either because the red dye resembles blood, or because a number of insects are destroyed in boiling the roots to extract the dye.
[88] See article on Brahman.
[89] Sonjhara is a separate caste as well as a subcaste of Dhimar.
[90] See article Kurmi, appendix, for some instances of territorial names.
[91] Wilson's _Indian Caste_, p. 439.
[92] Vol. i. pp. 272, 276.
[93] _Studies in Ancient History_, p. 123.
[94] See lists of totems of Australian and Red Indian tribes. Sir J.G. Frazer notes that the majority are edible animals or plants.
[95] Address to the British a.s.sociation, 1902. I had not had the advantage of reading the address prior to the completion of this work.
[96] M'Lennan, _Studies in Ancient History_, p. 123, quoting from Grant's _Origin and Descent of the Gael_.
[97] _Totemism and Exogamy_, i. pp. 112, 120, ii. p. 536, iii. pp. 100, 162; _Native Tribes of Central Australia_, pp. 209-10; _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_ p. 145; _Native Tribes of Northern Australia_ (Professor Baldwin Spencer), pp. 21, 197; J.H. Weeks, _Among the Primitive Bakongo_, p. 99.
[98] See pp. II, 138, 190 (Edition 1891).
[99] _Totemism and Exogamy_, ii. pp. 338, 339.
[100] _La Cite Antique_, p. 254.
[101] _The Origin of Civilisation_, 7th ed. p. 246.
[102] W.W. Skeat, _Malay Magic_, pp. 52, 53.
[103] I. p. 253.
[104] 2nd ed. vol. i. pp. 169, 174. See also Sir E.B. Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, i. pp. 282, 286, 295; ii. pp. 170, 181, etc.
[105] See also _Primitive Culture_, i. pp. 119, 121, 412, 413, 514.
[106] Messrs. Spencer and Gillan, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, Macmillan), p. 201.
