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union of couples between whom there cannot possibly be any 

 consanguinity, and that on certain detinite occasions over a large 

 area of country it may be ignored-'"'. Consanguinity is every- 

 where prevented by laws of its own ; a man for instance may not 

 marry his mothei's brother's daughter, his father's sister's 

 daughter, his daughter's daughter, etc., although they fall witliin 

 the division out of which it is lawful for him to pick a wife — 

 this is usually the solution of the difficulty which I understand 

 observers have now and again come across in the case of natives 

 unable to live sexually with others apparently belonging to the 

 proper exogaraous divisions. 



As is well known, each of these exogamous divisions is tal)U 

 from either eating, killing, touching, etc., certain animals, and 

 if b}' totemism pure and simple is to be understood a certain 

 relationship between an individual or group of individuals and 

 an animal or gruup of animals, then b}' all means let these 

 divisions be called totemie. In no way, however, can they be 

 deemed totemie in the sense of the totemism described as being 

 met with in the Central Australian Tribes by Messrs. Gillen and 

 (Spencer, my views on this matter being recently confirmed for 

 the extreme North Australian Tribes by Professor Klaat.scii. 

 More tha)i this, though as already shewn I have traced the 

 identity of the divisions from one end of North Queensland to 

 the othev, the animals tabu vary with each particular locality, 

 i.e., there is no constancy between the alleged " totem "' and the 

 division. Some typical examples taken at randoni throughout 

 the country are the following : — 



Eastbrn Coast-link 



Pr. Charlotte 



Bay 

 (I) Koko- 

 olkulo Blacks 



(2) Koko- 

 warra Blacks 



Bo wen (Yuro) 

 Blacks 



Kwpnru 



H'lini/Lri 



variousspecies I carpet snake: 

 of poison- bird like the 

 snakes 1 niorpork I 



red kangaroo 



dingo 



giant lily 



hrown snake 



owl 



emu 



eel 



turtle 



(same prolii- 

 bitioub as 

 Kurkillal 



KiirkilUt 



goose 

 plover 



goose 

 black duck 

 alligator 

 cockatoo 

 blue Ulv 



brown snake 'rainbow 'opos 

 carpet snake sum; ground 

 iguana; frilled 

 I liisard i 



Banhari 



bird like 

 an owl 



(same prohi- 

 bitions aa 

 Kupuru) 



sp. of houey 

 bandicoot 



eagle hawk 

 stingaree 

 porcupine 



■:i Both -Ktbnol. Studies, etc., 1S07— Sect. 71, «, '>, c 



