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.
27.  Witteru Yungaru IVa, b; Vb (?  Kangaroo; ? emu) 27_a_. " Yungo Vf 28. " Mallera Va, IXa 29. " Pakoota Ve, IXb 30.  Naka Tunna Vc 31.  Walar Murla* VIIa Bee; bee 32.  Cheepa Junna Vd 33.  Jamagunda Gamanutta* XIa 34.  Wartungmat Munichmat* XIVa Crow; white cockatoo
Eight-class system[+]
40.  Illitchi      Liaritchi      XIIa
41.  Uluuru        Biingaru       XIIc          (?  Curlew)
42.   "           Kingilli       XIIb          (?  Curlew)
43.  Wiliuku       Liaraku        XIId
44.  Urku          Ua             Xa

FOOTNOTES: 

[70] Howitt, p. 126.

[71] Id. p. 101.

[72] Id. p. 102, Lang, Secret, p. 163.

[73] Curr, II, 165.

[74] J.A.I. XIII, 338; Howitt, p. 195.

[75] J.A.I. XIV, 349.

[76] Taplin, p. 17; Howitt, p. 100.

[77] J.A.I. XIV, 348; Curr, II, 188, 195.

[78] Howitt, p. 98.

[79] Id. p. 106 n.  For the Kurnai, Bunjil and Ngarregal were perhaps phratry names (Howitt, p. 135).

[80] Curr, III, 461; Howitt, p. 123.

[81] Id. p. 121.

[82] Id. p. 124.

[83] Howitt, p. 91.

[84] Woods, p. 222.

[85] Howitt, p. 187.

[86] Nor.  Tr. p. 60.

[87] Howitt, p. 97.

[88] Howitt, p. 92; Mathews in J.R.S.N.S.W. XXXIII, 108.

[89] Mathews in Proc.  Am.  Phil.  Soc. XXXIX, 187.

[90] Sci.  Man, I. 84; Mathews in Proc.  Am.  Phil.  Soc. XXXIX, 89; in J.R.S.N.S.W. he reports a third name in certain districts—­Koorameenya.

[91] Mathews in Proc.  Am.  Phil.  Soc. XXXIX, 89.

TABLE III.

Allusion has been made in Chapter III to kinship organisations denominated “bloods” and “shades” by Mr R.H.  Mathews.  Whether it is that some observers have mistaken these for phratries or vice versa, it seems that the names of the two classes of organisation are at present inextricably intermingled, as the following table shows: 

 Tribe Phratry Blood Meaning Itchmundi[92] Kilpara-Muquara {Mukulo-Ngielpuru [+]Sluggish and
    " {Muggula-Ngipuru[+] swift blood
Wiradjeri[93] Mukula-Budthurung Wonghibon[94] Mukumura-Ngiel-
                bumura
Wonghi- }[95] bon and } Ngumbun- Gwaigullimba- [++]Swift and sluggish
 Ngneumba} Ngurrawan Gwaimudhan[++] blood Euahlayi[96] Gwaigullean- Light and dark
                Gwaimudthen blooded
Murawari[97] Girrana-Merugulli Muggulu-BumbirraSec.  Sec.Sluggish and
                                                        swift blood

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