These may refer to totemist Iron Age autochthones. He staged a public display in 1886 of Sinhalese autochthones from the Sri Lanka. By this, he was specifically alluding to certain Great Lakes region autochthones. Originally it was thought that Prussian Lithuanians were autochthones to East Prussia. Since ancestries, autochthones spoke only Tshiluba Language. Herodotus regarded the Cynurians as autochthones, but at the same time called them Ionians. In mythology, autochthones are those mortals who have sprung from the soil, rocks and trees.