[f. TOTEM + -ITE1.] = TOTEMIST 1.
1904. Howitt, Native Tribes S.E. Australia, iii. 145. To dream about his own totem means that some one has done something to it for the purpose of harming the sleeper or one of his totemites.
1911. Marett, Anthropol., vi. 167. Sometimes the totem is thought of as an ancestor, or as the common fund of life out of which the totemites are born and into which they go back when they die.
