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The necessary connection of the children with a particular tribe is 

 proven by the law of marriage and descent. Thus Iguana-Mata must 

 marry Kumbo ; her children are Kubbi and Kapota, and necessarily 

 Iguana in tribe. Iguana-Kapota must marry Ippai ; her children are 

 Murri and Mata, and also Iguana in tribe. In like manner, Emu- 

 Buta must marry Murri ; her children are Ippai and Ippata, and 

 Emu in tribe. Emu-Ippata must marry Kubbi ; her children are 

 Kumbo and Buta, and also of the Emu tribe. The same is true with 

 respect to marriages in the two remaining pairs of tribes. It will also 

 be seen that each tribe is made up, theoretically, of the descendants, 

 in the female line, of two supposed female ancestors. Why Mata and 

 Kapota are found in the Iguana, Kangaroo, and Opossum, and not in 

 the other tribes, and why Buta and Ippata ai-e found in the Emu, 

 Bandicoot, and Blacksnake, and not in the first three tribes, is not 

 explained, except that it is a part of the constitution of the tribal 

 system as it now exists among the Kamilaroi. 



Moreover, as we find that the Iguana, Kangaroo, and Opossum 

 tribes are counterparts of each other in the classes they contain, it 

 follows that they are subdivisions of one original tribe. Precisely the 

 same is true of Emu, Bandicoot, and Blacksnake, in both particulars ; 

 thus reducing the six to two original tribes, with marriage in the tribe 

 intei'dicted. It is further shown by the fact the first three tribes could 

 not intermarry, nor the last three, with each other. The prohibition 

 which prevented intermarriage when either three tribes was one 

 would follow the subdivisions, who were of the same descent, though 

 under different tribal names. Exactly the same thing is found among 

 the Seneca-Iroquois. If we did not know, from tradition, that the 

 Bear and the Deer were the original tribes, and that the Bear became 

 subdivided into the Wolf, Bear, Beaver, and Turtle, and the Deer 

 into the Deer, Snipe, Heron, and Hawk, we should infer, that the 

 first and the second four respectively were subdivisions of one original 

 tribe, from the single fact that anciently neither of the first four tribes 

 were allowed to intermarry, nor either of the last four. It was for the 

 same reason. They were known to be of the same descent, although 

 under four independent tribal names, and consequently the prohibition 

 continued to assert itself after the separation. In the course of time, 

 as the autonomy of the tribe became complete, this restriction was 

 removed, just as it is now in process of removal among the Kamilaroi, 

 as will presently be shown. 



