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Show HERALDRY. According to the highest authorities, heraldry finds its starting point in the totemism of prehistoric man. In the barbaric custom of painting or carving carv-ing the totem on oars, the bow;s and sides of canoes, weapons, pillars in front of houses, etc., and in tatooing it on the various parts of the body, as we have the real origin of the insignia in-signia that are so precious to the upper-tension of today. It was in the ignorant superstition of the savage that he sprang from a crane or a bear or some other animal that the. various "coats of arms" of the "big families" of the present time found their inception. incep-tion. New York American. |