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to the two sections of which it is composed. Thus, the totems 

 attached to Karpeun are common to the sections Barrang and Ban- 

 joora, and the Deeajee totems are common to the Bunda and Der- 

 wine sections. I have found that certain totems which belong to 

 Karpeun in a given district are reported to be attached to Deeajee 

 in a different part of the tribal territory. It may be stated that I 

 have observed similar local disagreements among the totems of 

 other organizations.^ 



In the tribes inhabiting the country on the heads of the Clarence 

 and' Condamine rivers, the following are some of the totems 

 attached to the group Karpeun : kangaroo-rat, parrot, turtle, carpet 

 snake, eaglehawk, codfish, sea, brown kangaroo, crow, opossum, 

 scrub turkey and porcupine. Among the totems of the Deeajee 

 group m the same district may be enumerated the plain turkey, red 

 kangaroo, bat, common magpie, wallaroo, black snake, native cat, 

 emu, iguana and platypus. 



Mr. A. W, Howitt reports that in the Turrubul tribe, one of 

 those included in this Nation, ''descent is counted through the 

 male."* In another place he makes the same assertion in regard to 

 the Kaiabara, also belonging to this Nation.' There is, however, 

 no question that he is in error in both instances, and has evidently 

 been misinformed. I have drawn attention to the matter now, 

 because on a former occasion I was misled by Mr. Howitt's conclu- 

 sions respecting the line of descent of the Kaiabara tribe.* I have 

 since, however, from personal inquiry, reported that descent is 

 through the mother.^ 



I have before given the Rev. William Ridley the credit of being 

 the first to report the Turrubul and Dippil tribes from Moreton Bay 

 to Wide Bay, whence Mr. E. Palmer traced a siniiilar organization to 

 Port Curtis/ 1 am the first to publish the existence of identical 

 divisions on the sources of the Clarence and Dumaresq rivers ; 

 down the Condamine, and across the country to the Dawson, 

 'including that river and its tributaries, as shown upon the map. 



^jfourn. Roy, Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxi, 170. 

 '^ Irani. Roy. Soc. Victoria (1889), i, 102. 

 ^Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xviii, 50, 

 ^Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. Aust. (Q.), x, 29. 

 ^Journ. Roy. Soc. N. S. PVales, xxxii.. 81-82. 

 *Loc. cit., p. 81. 



