Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:: 1892

Credit: Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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$IS. Inferior Offlcers.-\Z. Petty Chiefs: have they indepen- dent jurisdiction ? 14. Does their power act as a check on that of the head '] 15. To what extent are they accountable to him ^ 16. Are they appointed by the king or superior chiefs, elective, or hereditary ? 17. Does the power of each inferior chief extend over a sept personally attached to him- self ? 18. Has it territorial limits? 19. Do quarrels arise between chiefs ? and are they settled by reference to the head, or by war, or how otherwise ? 20. What is the extent of their power over their subjects 1 21. Have their subjects any right to appeal to the head or to any other authority / 22. How does the system work ? 23. What are the number of inferior jurisdictions 1 and are there any distinctions of rank between them? 24. Do the inferior chiefs ever meet in council 1 25. Counsellors or Ministers : how are these appointed ? 26. Have they any authority independent of the will of the head? 17. What offices do they hold? 28. Have they any direct power over the people ? and how do they exercise it ? 29. Is the head virtually ruled by his counsellors ? or does he exercise an individual will ? 30. Is he ruled by favourites ? 31. Is he ruled by women? 32. Is there any machinery of government, or any established constitution ? 33. What is the revenue of the chief and the other rulers and officers ? 34. How is it raised ? 35. Are there annual or more fre- quent feasts at the capital town for the payment of dues or tribute ? E. W. B. No. XXXVII.—TABOO. Ceremonial prohibitions of eating certain food, touching or even looking at certain persons or things, mentioning certain names, are very frequent among mankind, and though not reducible to one common principle, are in vai-ious ways instruc-$