1S9R.] MATHEWS — DIVISIONS OF QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES. 



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Wife. 



Bundagan 

 Derwinegan 



Offspring. 



Sons. 



Barrangan 

 Banjooran 



Derwine 

 Bunda 



Banjoora 

 Barrang 



Daughters. 



Derwinegan 

 Bundagan 



Banjooran 

 Barrangan 



Descent is always reckoned on the female side, the children 

 taking the group and totem name of their mother. They do not, 

 however, belong to her section, but take the name of the other sec- 

 tion in their mother's group, as exemplified in the above table. 



The pair of sections, Barrang and Banjoora, forming the group 

 Karpeun, invariably marry the Bunda and Derwine pair, of the 

 group Deeajee, but the rules of intermarriage of the individual sec- 

 tions constituting the groups is different in different parts of the 

 tribal territory. For example, in some districts, instead of the 

 rules of marriage following the order laid down in the foregoing 

 table, a Barrang, male, marries a Derwine, female, and vice versa ; 

 a Banjoora, male, marries a Bunda, female, and vice vejsa. The 

 descent of the children is not, however, affected by this variation 

 — the offspring of a Derwinegan being always Bunda, no matter 

 whether she marries a Banjoora or a Barrang husband. This law- 

 applies, mutatis mutandis, to the offspring of the women belonging 

 to the other three sections. 



Although marriages are generally regulated by the rules set out in 

 the above table, and in the last paragraph, yet there are what I have, 

 called family or sectional regulations, under which a man may, in 

 certain cases only, marry a woman belonging to his own section, 

 but of a different totem to that to which he himself belongs. For 

 instance, a Barrang Opossum might be allowed to marry a Bar- 

 rangan Porcupine. Marriage between persons of the same totem is 

 strictly prohibited.^ 



The totems belonging to each of the primary groups are common 



^ " The Kamilaroi Class System of Australian Aborigines," Proc. Roy. Geog. 

 Soc. A list, (Q.), X, 23-24.. 



