A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)
Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 53
like the clan totem, transmitted byinheritance. As an exception Mr FRASER tells us{Totemism, Edinburgh, 1887, p. 56) that in one CentralAmerican tribe the son of a chief was free to choosewhether he would accept the ancestral totem or adopta new one, but a son who did not adopt his fathers totemwas… … Fig. 5. Fig. 6. carved on their defensive and offensive arms and otherproperty, as well as set up on poles as standards in theirvillages. In the personal tattooing of the North AmericanIndians, and of the Hindus, as in the cicatrices whichserved as its equivalent in Australia, conventional…
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