Reproduction of a totem shrine on one of the Torres Straits Islands, Melanesia. The small enclosure, top left hand corner shows the shrine as it probably appeared; the larger one to the right is intended to show the contents of the long covered enclosures. The totem animals represented by effigies were a crocodile, a hammer headed shark and a ray fish.After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913.