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The Gexeanyms — or names serving- to distinguish the 

 individual's own true family connections (as understood among 

 Europeans). The various terms denoting these would, as jindcr- 

 .■itfKJil itiiKmij I-^uri'pnnix, comprise the following: — 



((/) In the contemporary generation— brother, sister, 

 husband, wife, husband's brother and sister, wife's brother and 

 sister, male cousin, female cousin. The translation of the terms 

 brother and sister has been already dealt with. Husband's 

 brother and sister, wife's brother and sister are known as brothers- 

 in-law and sisters-in-law (as in a European connnunity). 

 Husband and wife are either called after the particular hete- 

 ronymic terms of the paedomatronymic groups into which they 

 are allowed to marrry {i.e. as brother-in-law and sister-in-law), or 

 by separate geneanymic names. No special geneanyms are 

 applied to male or fenuxlo cousins ; they are simply known by 

 the particular heteronymic groups into which they fall, i.e., 

 either as brothers and sisters (if their father's brother's, mother's 

 sister's, children), or as brothers-iii-law and sisters-in-law (if 

 their father's sister's, mother's brother's, children). [See 

 Genealogical Tree] . 



(M In the preceding generation — father; mother ; father's 

 brother, sister, father, and mothei- ; mother's brother, sister, 

 father, and mother ; man's father-in-law, mother-in-law ; 

 woman's father-in-law, mother-in-law. 



The aboriginal equivalents for father, mother, fathers' sister 

 and mother's brother, have already been noted in the heteronyms; 

 father's brother and mother's sister are called respectively by the 

 same names as father and mother. A father's father is desig- 

 nated difl'erently from a mother's father, and a father's mother 

 ditt'erently from a mother's mother ; special geneanyms are 

 applied to these four relationships. With regard to fathers- 

 in-law and mothers-in-law, I have not yet had time to make 

 suHiciently minute examination of the numerous notes collected 

 to warrant my discussing any uniformity or otherwise in the 

 aboriginal equivalents among all the tribes under consideration. 

 The existence however is noteworthy, in some of the North-West 

 Central Queenslund tribes of a mutual term expressing the 

 relationship, imknown among us l^uropeans, between the mother 

 of the husband and the mother of the wife. 



