A Kaitish MAY, like an Arunta, marry a woman of his own totem, but he scarcely ever does so.

The old prohibition, extinct in law, persists in custom; unless we say that the Kaitish are now merely imitating the usual practice of the rest of the totemic races of the world.
Moreover, even among the Arunta, certain totems greatly preponderate in each of the two exogamous intermarrying divisions of the tribe.

This must be because the present practice has not yet quite upset the ancient usage, by which no totem ever occurred in both divisions.

There is even an Arunta myth asserting that this was so, but it is, of course, of no historical value as evidence.

Here it is proper to give Mr.Frazer's contrary theory in his own words:-- 'This [Arunta] mode of determining the totem has all the appearance of extreme antiquity.