Moreover, why should a triba! colony of two blended
clans take, as would be absolutely necessary, two new
totem names at all ? We know not one example of
change of totem name in Australia.' Their old totems
were their gods, their flesh, their blood, their vital
energies, by Dr. Durkheim's own definition. "The

> In JVaiitvt of Sattih-East Australia, pp. 115, 316, we heu on the
evid-ence of " Wonghi infortnants" that meinbera of Ihe lotems ate allowed
to chftDge totcBis, "to meet maTriage diiiFiculiLCSr" and ItMiiuie in dificicnt.
