76 MATHEWS — DIVISIONS OF XORTH AUSTRALIAN TRIBES. [May 5, 



was in the press, a correspondent furnished me with additional 

 information which shows the line of descent in a manner that is 

 more readily understood than by the table appended to the article 

 in question. I propose, therefore, to supply a new table, showing 

 how the divisions intermarry, with the sections to which the off- 

 spring belong, as follows : 



TABLE L 



It will be observed by the foregoing table that the sons of the 

 women of one group marry the daughters of the women of the 

 other ; and, also, that each group has perpetual succession through 

 its females. For example, take the women of Group A in the 

 table, we find that Parulla is the mother of Pungata; Pungata of 

 Ngala; Ngala of Bultara, and Bultara is the mother of Parulla, 

 and this order of succession is continually repeated.^ Among the 

 women of Group B the line of descent conforms to the same rules. 

 I have traced some of' the section names of this organization, 

 namely, Bultara, Koomara, etc., across the country from the Upper 

 Finke river northeasterly to the Georgina river, a distance of more 

 than four hundred miles. 



My correspondent also made some further investigations respecting 

 the order of succession in four of the sections of the Warramonga 

 tribe^ at Tennant's Creek, with the result that it becomes necessary 

 to prepare an amended table of one of the groups. As it might 

 cause confusion to show only one group, I have included both in 

 the subjoined table : 



1 The names of the eight sections of the Upper Finke river tribes were first 

 reported by the Rev. L. Schulze in 1891 {Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia^ xiv, 

 223, 224.) Their arrangement into two intermarrying groups was the result of 

 my investigations [Journ. Roy. Soc. N'. S. IVa/es, xxxii, 72). 



2 yourn. Roy. Soc. jV. S. Wales, xxxii, 73. 



