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receive their permanent individual names. In the same North- 

 West Central country the names of women are usually given them 

 at birth, and throughout life do not usually change ; exceptions 

 however are met with in cases where some physical defect or 

 unusual habit is brought into prominence. At Miriam Vale, 

 males and females are known by their paedomatronyms, c//., 

 Bunda, Deroin, etc., until such time (the first initiation ceremony) 

 as they receive their permanent name ; members of the same 

 paedomatronym (prior to this ceremony) may be distinguished 

 by some physical peculiarity, etc., *■.//., Deroin Dolom, miiflice 

 Deroin. The left handed one. 



The Climanym. — The " step-ladder " or titular name of the 

 individual, depending upon his social degree, his status on the 

 rung of the social ladder. To attain these titular names, the 

 person has to pass through the ordeal of the several initiation 

 ceremonies, in general about four of them (each with a new 

 climanym), though, in the centres near civilisation these cere- 

 monies are fast dying out. 



The Recapitulation. — Supposing we wished to give any 

 person his complete individual and social nomenclature, it would 

 be as follows : — 



Patronym - - - Pitta Pitta, Kalkadoon, etc. 

 (iamomatronym - Ootaroo or Pakoota \ , 



Paedomatronym - Koopooroo, Woongko, etc. | (^;^^,j-,f,{^iQrrical 

 Heteronym - - Titi, Kako, etc. I rp 



Cieneanym - - Jiungka, Uttana, etc. ) 

 Autonym - - - MoorrawiluUi, (a Pitta-Pitta name). 

 Climanym - - - Yuppieri, etc. (a Pitta-Pitta name). 



Phobable Interpretation of the Class-Systems. It has 

 often been suggested that these class-systems have been devised 

 to prevent incestuous consanguinity. In opposition to this view 

 I may state that fa j this alleged object is not met by the 

 marriage-rule of Koopooroo, mating only with Koorkilla, and of 

 Bunburi Only with Woongko ; c//., a man cohabiting with his 

 blood-cousin, his daughter's daughter, or his father's mother, 

 Avould be guilty of incest although these three relatives belong 

 to the particular paedomatronymic group from which he is other- 

 wise allowed to choose a wife [see Genealogical Tree] . 



