In hunting and fishing the spirits of the dead invoked for success are called upon in the same places where they had hunted and fished and this seems the chief reason influencing the Kuni to remember religiously the names of their ancestors. When a native, in the course of my genealogical investigations, was unable to give the name of his grandfather or great-grandfather the bystanders exclaimed, "But how do you get along in hunting?"2

2 "La religione e le conoscenze naturali dei Kuni," , 8: 206.