is said to exist in the Aru archipelago
(Papuan) west of New Guinea. There the family, and not the
clan, is the social unit; every family has its badge or
crest.

[828] Melanesia is here taken to include the Bismarck
Archipelago (New Britain, New Ireland, and adjacent islands)
and the islands lying to the eastward as far as the 180th
meridian of longitude, though in this area there is in some
places Polynesian influence.

[829] So Reverend George Brown, _Melanesians and
Polynesians_, p. 28.

[830] This usage is reported for Florida Island.

[831] On the question whether these gods are a development
out of totem animals see below, Sec. 577.

[832] On the relation of this idea to Frazer's theory of
"conceptional totemism" see below, Sec. 548.

[833] It might then seem that the deity was originally the
animal; see below, Sec. 577.

[834] As to the significance of this fact cf. below, Sec. 529
ff.

[835] W. H. Furness, 3d, _The Island of Stone-Money_.

[836] On the large theistic material of the Pelews see
Frazer, _Adonis Attis Osiris_, pp. 386, 428 ff., with
references to J. Kubary, "Die Religion der Pelauer" (in A.
Bastian's _Allerlei aus Volks- und Menschenkunde_).

[837] Cf. below, Sec. 577.

[838] Exogamy is said to exist in the atoll Lua Niua, in the
Lord Howe group; the population is described as Polynesian
(Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, p. 414 ff.); Dr.
Brown thinks it probable that exogamous classes formerly
existed in Samoa, to which place the Lua Niua people, he
holds, are ultimately to be traced.

[839] Certain septs (among the Telugus and others) are named
from inanimate (some times artificial) objects.

[840] The usages mentioned in article "Burma" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, iii, 24, do not
necessarily show totemism.

[841] The Iroquois stock occupied an immense territory,
partly in Canada, partly in the region now including the
states of New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas.

[842] Cf. Gatschet, _Migration Legend of the Creeks_, p. 24
ff.

[843] The Wyandots, who were allied to the Iroquois, dwelt
in the district north of Lake Ontario.

[844] The Algonkins formerly ranged over a large territory
extending along the Atlantic coast as far south as North
Carolina and reaching westward to the Mississippi.

[845] I