1899.1 BUTI — FRAGMENT OF THE "BOOK OF THE DEAD." 79 



It will be seen that the community is segregated into two inter- 

 marrying groups, and that the children take the name of the com- 

 plementary section in the division to which their mother belongs. 



In the southern portion of South Australia there are a number of 

 tribes who possess the two primary groups only, like A and B in the 

 foregoing tables, without any subdivisions into sections. As an 

 example of this system, it may be mentioned that in some districts 

 these two divisions, or groups, are called Matturri and Karraroo;^ 

 in others they are Krokee and Kumite ; in other parts they are 

 called Kookoojiba and Koocheebinga, and, again in others, they 

 are known as Koolpirry and Thinewah. In each case the men 

 belonging to one primary division marry the women of the other, 

 and the children take the name of their mother's division. As I 

 am now engaged in the preparation of a comprehensive article 

 dealing with this type of organization, I shall not enter farther 

 upon it at present. 



ON AN INTERESTING FRAGMENT OF THE "BOOK 

 OF THE DEAD." 



BY RUDOLPH BUTI, PH.D. 

 {Read May 5, 1S99.) 



In the Egyptian collection of the Woman's College of Balti- 

 more there is an Egyptian hieratic papyrus which, when handed to 

 me for translation, I found to be an interesting fragment of the 

 '' Book of the Dead." The fragment written on papyrus is a foot 

 and an inch in length and seven inches in width. 



It contains a part of the 149th chapter, which is divided into 

 fourteen paragraphs. The papyrus is also divided into vertical col- 

 umns of three inches, separated by a double line of nearly one- 



1 Joiirn. Roy. Soc N. S. Wales, xxxii, 69. 



