46 NOTES ON SOCIAL AND INDIVinUAL NOMENCLATURE, ETC. 



(r) In the succeeding generation — son, daughter ; son's son, 

 daughter; daughter's son, daughter; brother's son, daughter; 

 sister's son, daughter ; man's son-in-law, daughter-in-law ; 

 woman's son-in-law, daughter-in-laAV, 



In all the tribes, son, daughter, brother's son, brother's 

 daughter have no distinguishing names, each language having 

 but one term (sometimes with a special suffix to express the 

 females), a special geneanym, to express them all ; similarly, 

 sister's son, sister's daughter, pass by another special cognomen. 

 The remaining relationships of the succeeding generation are not 

 here discussed for reasons similar to those expressed when speak- 

 ing of fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law. 



While linishing Avith these geneanyms, it is well to draw 

 attention to the necessity of avoiding, for reasons aforesaid, such 

 terms as uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew, niece, grandfather, grand- 

 mother. 



The accompanying genealogical tree has been draAvn up to 

 shoAV more graphically the connection of group and blood re- 

 lationship existing between one individual and all the others 

 constituting a snuill tribal encampment, '■..'/., of the Pitta-Pitta 

 blacks. l"'or the sake of convenience and simplicity, the number 

 of relatives gi\-en in the minimum consistent with the proper 

 elucidation of the diiferent rt'lations by which the central tigure 

 Charlie, a Koo})ooro() male, Avould pei'sonally know and speak of 

 them. The diversity of English eipiivalents for identical 

 aboriginal terras is very striking. Where special geneanyms are 

 in use, the heteronyms are discarded. 



Tm-- Autonym — personal, individual name. The names 

 a}tpbed to indiA'iduals are based for the nu)st part upon physical 

 peculiarities or objects of nature. Whether any connection 

 is to be traced so far as individual names are concerned, betAveen 

 parents and their otfspring, it is ditlicult to decide absolutely ; 

 in great measure this uncertainty on ))iy part is due to the 

 determined uuAvillingness of survivors to )nentiou anything con- 

 cerning their relatives deceased ; their names, ex^tloits or other 

 particvdars. Jn the Boulia and surrounding districts so called 

 pet-names are applied to young males, but these are dropped at 

 the first of the initiation rites, Avhen, amid much ceremony, they 



