■328 MATHEWS — DIVISIOXS OF QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES. [Nov. 18, 



land lying between the northern boundary of New South Wales 

 and the nineteenth parallel of south latitude. 



Each of these nations is composed of certain communities or 

 aggregates of tribes who adopt identical section or class divisions, 

 the particulars of which are explained under each head in the fol- 

 lowing pages, and the boundaries of the nations are accurately 

 defined on the accompanying map. Each nation has been named 

 after one or two of the tribes whose section or class divisions were 

 first reported in it, and they are numbered on the map to corre- 

 spond with the numbers given in the letter-press. 



On the map referred to there is also represented the dividing 

 line, AB, between the area in which circumcision is practiced, and 

 that in which such rite is not in force. From B, this line con- 

 tinues in the same northerly direction till it meets the shore of the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. The continuation of this line southerly from 

 the point A passes through the northwest corner of New South 

 Wales, and its position is fixed on the map of that colony accom- 

 panying my paper read before this Society March t8, 1898. 



No. I. The Dippil Nation. 



The country occupied by this nation, No. i on the map, extends 

 from the Upper Clarence in New South Wales to Port Curtis in 

 ■Queensland. On the east it is bounded by the sea-coast, and on 

 the south, west and north by the distinguishing line marked upon 

 the map, and includes the Brisbane, Mary, Burnett, Dawson, Upper 

 Condamine and other rivers ; together with Moreton, Stradbroke, 

 Eraser and other islands on the adjacent coast. The following are 

 a few of the principal and best known tribes who were formerly 

 spread over this tract of country : Dippil, Turrubul, Paiamba, 

 Kitabool, Kaiabara, Kooranga, Goonine, Murrungama. 



The people are divided into two primary groups, called Deeajee 

 and Karpeun ; the former is again divided into two sections, called 

 Bunda and Derwine, and the latter into two, called Banjoora^ and 

 Barrang. The following synopsis shows which sections may inter- 

 marry, and to what section the children belong : 



^ In the Wide Bay district, Balcoin is used instead of Banjoora, with the fetu- 

 dnine equivalent Balcoingan. 



