The common life of the clan.
The totem-clan held itself to partake of the life of its totem, and on the above hypothesis one common life would flow through all the animals and plants of the totem and all the members of the clan.

An Australian calls his totem his Wingong (friend) or Tumang (flesh), and nowadays expresses his sorrow when he has to eat it.

[148] If a man wishes to injure any man of a certain totem, he kills any animal of that man's totem.

[149] This clearly shows that one common life is held to bind together all the animals of the totem-species and all the members of the totem-clan, and the belief seems to be inexplicable on any other hypothesis.

The same is the case with the sex-totems of the Kurnai tribe.