It has also been advocated by Dr.A.C.Haddon, F.R.S.

[95] The Gaelic names for family, _teadhloch_ and _cuedichc_ or _coedichc_, mean, the first, 'having a common residence,' the second, 'those who eat together.' [96] The detailed accounts of the totems of the Australian, Red Indian and African tribes, now brought together by Sir J.G.Frazer in _Totemism and Exogamy_, show a considerable amount of evidence that the early totems were not only as a rule edible animals, but the animals eaten by the totem-clans which bore their names.

[97] But after the domestication of animals and the culture of plants had been attained to, the totems ceased to be the chief means of subsistence.

Hence the original tie of kinship was supplanted by another and wider one in the tribe, and though the totem-clans remained and continued to fulfil an important purpose, they were no longer the chief social group.

And in many cases, as man had also by now begun to speculate on his origin, the totems came to be regarded as ancestors, and the totem-clans, retaining their sentiment of kinship, accounted for it by supposing themselves to be descended from a common ancestor.