Totemism And Exogamy, a Treatise On Certain Early Forms of Superstition And Society
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Morgan, Systems of Con- the Classificatory System of Relation- sanguinity and Affinity of the Human ship," Anthropological Essays presented Family, pp. 573 s??. '0 £■ B. Tylor (Oxford, 1907), p. 314. '' See above, pp. 170 S(jq., and W. H. R. Rivers, " (Jn the Origin of ' See above, p. 176. i8o TOTEM ISM IN POLYNESIA CHAP. The four sections of Tikopia and their atita. Belief in descent from the sacred animals. eaten, and they use the same term in speaking of an ancestor. Some of the divine anima...ls are revered by the whole people, but others only by the members of one or other of the four sections into which the population is divided. The names of the four sections are the Kavika, the Taumako, the Tafua, and the Fangalele. The Taumako may not eat the sea-eel (take) nor a bird called rupe. The Tafua may not eat the fresh-water eel {tuna), the flying fox {peka), and the turtle (fonu). The two latter animals are forbidden food to the whole community ; but they are held to be especially sacred to the Tafua.
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