NOKTH iiUKENSLANl) KTIINOGRAPHY^ — KOTH. 101 



Amongst tiibes occupying the borclei-country between (^ueiiii.s- 

 land and the Northern Tei-ritory, are tlie Yaro-inga to Ix; met 

 with at Headingley and Lake Nash on the Upper Georgina 

 River, and tlie Workai a'-* liigher up the rivei- at Camooweal, 

 etc. These, in connuon with other people in the 'Territory have 

 eight paedomatronyms, (with the one term applicable to botii 

 male and female members of eacli division) traceal>]e into the 

 four of the rest of North Queensland as follows : — 

 Yaro-inga Workai-a 



alloguara -pelyarinio ( , 



andraja pieugo t 



odalia woreto | i 



■' . > wungko 



angalaja jerameramo ) ^ 



a-ngella kangil I , in 



'^ , " V kurkilla 



anaura yekamaro ) 



biltara pangarinjo I , , . 



mo- jo warko j 



The Karawa Tribe, at the head of Settlement Creek in the 

 Gulf Country, to be often met with at, proV^ably their chief camp, 

 Wollogorang Station, about four miles within the Noi'thern 

 Territory border, also have the eight primary divisions, but 

 having separate terms for the male and female members, appar- 

 ently possess sixteen; so far I have not had sufficiently reliable 

 interpreters to identify them with the Boulia ones. 

 ;''21 Throughout the whole of North Queensland, sexual 

 connnnnism, with its specialisation of marriage, is only 

 permissible on the following lines, hence these four divisions 

 have been termed exogamous groups or divisions : — 



male + female = resulting otfspring 



the arrangement being graphically ilhistrated in the table in the 

 "Ethnological Studies "--. 



But if the term "exogamous" division is to be preserved, it 

 must be clearly borne in mind, that the arrangement does not 

 per se prevent consanguinity, that it does actually prevent the 



^' These are identical, so one of the authors tells me, with the Waaga 

 of Messrs. Spencer and Oillen. 



^'-^ Roth — Ethnol. Studies, etc.. 1897., opp. p. 04 — Up till about four 

 years ago I thought tliat T had obtained from the Annan River District a 

 eet of divisions shewing a different line of descent to that met with in 

 Boulia ; on further investigation they conform to the usual rule. 



