Bulletin No. 18. 

 SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL NOMENCLATURE. 



(Plates xxv.-xxxi.) 



PONTENTS. 



Sect. 1. Recognition of General Features of the Country ... 79 



2. Specialisation of People according to lands occupied ... 81 



3. Collection of Groups of People into Tribes ... ... 82 



4r. Certain Ethnographical Districts -that of Boulia — ... 83 

 5-J2. ,, RockhamptonandCentral Coast 84-91 



12-13. ,, Cairns and Atherton ... ... 91 



14. ,, Bloomfield River ... ... ... 92 



15. ,, Conktown, etc 93 



16. ,, Princess Charlotte Bay ... ... 94 



17. „ Middle Palmer River 95 



18. ,, Peuuefather River 96 



19. Internal Divisions of the Groups ... ... ... ... 97 



(a) depending upon rank ... ... ... ... ... 97 



20. (b) depending upon " family " relationship ... ... 99 



21. (i) exogamous or totemic? .. .. ... ...101 



22. (ii) or connected with food-supply ? ... ...103 



23. Secondary Divisions of the Groups ... ... ..104 



24. Classification of Inanimate and Animate Nature ...106 



1. The many variations in the pliysical characteristics and 

 general contour of the country are not only recognised but 

 expressed, amongst the generic terms thus met with being those 

 indicative of island, .sea, beach, mainland, river, swamp, forest, 

 desert plain, preci[)ice, mountain, etc\ Each tract of country 

 is specialised by the people traversing, occupying, or hunting 

 over it, and hence, as often happens, may lie called by different 

 names. Barrow Point, for instance, is known to the local blacks 

 as E-polin, to the Starcke Rivei- ones as Mo-yir, and to the 

 natives of the Normanby and Deighton Rivers as Par-cham- 

 moka. On the other hand, there are certain large tracts to 

 which a single name is applied, but in tlie.se cases any reference 

 to them is made l>y Aboriginals speaking a similar language. 

 The meaning of the actual words so applied to such an area is in 

 many cases Ic^t, whilst in others it is signihcatory of some local 

 peculiarity. Amongst the former may be mentioned an inter- 

 esting example from a camping ground in the neighbourhood of 

 Cape Flattery known as Yaborego, from which a present-day 



1 Roth— Bull. 2— Sect. 10. 



