Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 199 pages of information about Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia.

Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 199 pages of information about Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia.

[65] Native Tribes, 90; cf. Proc.  R.S.  Vict., N.S.  X, 19; T.R.S.S.A., XIV, 224; J.R.S.N.S.W., XXXII, 72.

[66] Northern Tribes, 100; cf. J.A.I., XVIII, 44; J.R.S.N.S.W., XXXII, 73.

[67] Mathews in J.R.S.N.S.W., XXXIII, 112; XXXV, 217.

[68] Mathews in Proc.  R.G.S.  Qu., XVI, 70.

[69] Mathews in Am.  Phil.  Soc., XXXVIII, 78.

TABLE II.

Phratry Names.

Phratries Meanings Name of Tribe
1. [+]Waa(ng) Crow Wurunjerri[70]
Bunjil or Wrepil Eaglehawk
2.  Yuckembruk " Ngarrego[71]
Merung
3.  Umbe Crow Wolgal[72] etc
Malian or Multa Eaglehawk
4.  Muquara " Berriait[73], Tatathi[74],
Kilpara Wathi-Wathi[74], Keramin[75],
Waimbio[76], Barkinji[77],
Milpulko[78], Wilya[78],
Itchumundi[79]
5.  Kumit (Gamutch, Black cockatoo
Kaputch, Kulitch)
Kroki (Krokitch, White cockatoo Booandik[80], Wotjoballuk[81],
Krokage) Gournditchmara[82] etc.

The feminine terminations are -egor, -gurk or -jarr.

For South-West Victoria Dawson (Aborigines, p. 26) gives two groups and an odd totem kin (?): 

    Phratries Meaning Name of Tribe

 6.  Kuurokeetch Longbilled cockatoo
    Kartpoerappa Pelican
    Kappatch Banksia cockatoo
    Kirtuuk Boa snake
    Kuunamit Quail
 7.  Kararu (Kiraru, Dieri[83], Parnkalla & Nauo[84],
      Kararawa) Yandairunga[85], Urabunna[86]
    Matteri
 8.  Tinewa Yandrawontha, Yowerawarika[87]
    Koolpuru (?  Emu)
 9.  Yungo (?  Kangaroo)
    Mattera Kurnandaburi[88]
10.  Kookoojeeba
    Koocheebinga Geebera[89]

The equivalence is not known.

11.  Koorabunna
    Kooragula Goonganji[90]

    Phratry

12.  Darboo* Bloomfield River[91]
    Tooar

The equivalence is unknown.

Phratry names.         Four-class system     Meaning
20.  Dilbi         Kupathin       Ia, IIIa[+]
21.  Budthurung(1) Mukula         Ib            (1)=black duck
22.  Gwaigullean   Gwaimudthen    Ie            Light blood; dark blood
23.  Ngielbumurra  Mukumurra      Ic
24.  Ngumbun       Ngurrawan      Id
25.  Girana        Merugulli      If
26.  Deeajee       Karpeun        IIIb

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