380 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
legitime accipiat. Hoc discernendum videtur cui Reipus debeatur. 
Si nepos fuerit, sororis filius, senior ille accipiat ; qui si neptis filius 
non fuerit, consobrinus filius, qui ex materno genere venit ipse accipiat. 
Si autem nec consobrinus filius fuerit, tune avunculus frater matris 
Reippum accipiat. Si vero avunculus nonfuerit, tunc frater illius, qui 
ipsam mulierem antea habuerat, si in haereditatem defuncti fratris, id 
est, mariti mulieris illius, venturus non est, ipse Reippum accipiat. 
Quod si nec ipse fuerit, tune qui proximus fuerit superius nominatis, 
sui singillatim secundum parentallam dicti sunt, usque ad sextum 
geniculum, si in haereditatem illius mariti defuncti not accedat, ipse 
Reippos accipiat. 
(4) Si_ autem nullus, nisi post sextum geniculum. proximus fuerit, in 
Fiscum Reippi vel caussa, quae inde acta fuerit colligatur. 
9.—ON SOME NATIVE TRADE CENTRES. 
By A. W. Howrirt. 
[ Abstract. | 
Tue Dieri tribe of the Barcoo Delta have a practice which in- 
dicates an extensive system of intertribal communication and of 
barter. Representatives of the surrounding tribes met, and 
still meet, at Kopperamana periodically to confer and to barter 
their goods. The bartering is carried on with certain cere- 
monial observances, and affects an area of probably not less 
than 120 miles around Kopperamana. 
Other instances of such trade centres are quoted in Victoria 
and New South Wales, which indicate that this practice of inter- 
tribal trade was much more extensive than we have been 
aware of. 
10.—THE ANNUAL HARVEST FESTIVAL IN KIRIWINA, 
BRITISH NEW GUINEA. 
By Rev. S. B. Fetiows. 
[ Abstract. | 
THE arrangement of the food-plantation land, and the harvest- 
ing of the yam crop is described. The incantations of the 
“great chief” are necessary to drive away malignant spirits, 
and make the yam-house safe. Dances are performed daily by 
the men during the festival, and the ancestral spirits look on 
with approval. The festival is concluded by a farewell feast 
to the ancestors. | 
