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suits will appear. The children of Ippai and Kapota are Murri and 

 Mata. As brothers and sisters they cannot marry. At the second 

 degree the children of Murri married to Buta are Ippai and Ippata, 

 and of Mata married to Kumbo are Kubbi and Kapota. Of these 

 Ippai marries his cousin Kapota, and Kubbi marries his cousin Ippata. 

 It will be noticed that the eighth class are reproduced from the original 

 pair in the second and third generations. In the next, or third degree, 

 there are two Murris, two Matas, two Kumbos, and two Butas ; of whom 

 the Murris marry the Butas, their second cousins, and the Kubbis the 

 Matas, also their second cousins. At the fourth generation there are 

 four each of Ippais, Kapotas, Kubbis, and Ippatas, who are third 

 cousins. Of these the Ippais marry the Kapotas, as before, and the 

 Kubbis the Ippatas. At the fifth generation there are eight each of 

 Murris and Butas, Kumbos and Matas. They are fourth cousins, 

 of whom the Murris marry the Butas, and the Kumbos the Matas. 

 A similar chart of the other marriageable classes will produce like 

 results. It is thus made apparent that near consanguinei not only inter- 

 marry constantly, but are compelled to do so by this sexual organiza- 

 tion. One of the primary objects secured by the tribal organization, 

 when fully developed, so as to allow marriage into every tribe but that 

 of the individual, was thus defeated. 



Sixthly. We come next to an innovation upon the original consti- 

 tution of the tribes, which reveals a movement, still pending, in the 

 direction of the true ideal of the tribe. It is shown in two distinct 

 particulars : First, in allowing the first three and the second three 

 tribes respectively to intermarry to a limited extent ; and, secondly, to 

 marry into classes not before permitted. Thus Iguana-Murri can now 

 marry Mata in the Kangaroo tribe, his sister ; whereas originally he 

 was restricted to Buta, in the opposite three tribes. So Iguana-Kubbi 

 can now marry Kapota, his sister, in the Kangaroo tribe, whereas he 

 was at first restricted to Ippata, in the opposite three tribes. In like 

 manner Emu-Kumbo can now marry Buta, his sister, in the Blacksnake 

 tribe, and Emu-Ippai can marry Ippata, his sister, in the same tribe, 

 contrary to original limitations. Each class of males in each of the 

 three tribes seems now to be allowed one additional class of females in 

 the" two remaining tribes, from which they were before excluded. Mr. 

 Fison, however, in his table (Memo. C), does not show a change to the 

 full extent here indicated. . 



This innovation would have been a retrogade movement, but that it 



