PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



LXIX 



MAP B. 



DiSTRiBUTIOM OF TRIBES ACCORDING TO DESCENT OF MOIETV AND CLASS NamEIS. 



* tttt t i Direcr Male DescenT- 4 classes, 

 Direcf Female DescenP of MoIeFy Ittrf. Indirect Male Desoenr-4< 



• olassea. 



Indirecf Male DescenT— 8 subcia 



Indirect- Female Descenl"- 4 cUssea. 





Abnormal Tribe 



Leaving out of account the last, wliose numbers are insig- 

 nificant, ir is an extraordinary tiling that the organization of all 

 other Australian tribes, some hundreds in number, and occupying 

 an area only slightly less in extent than Europe, can be repre- 

 sented by that of four tribes; two counting descent in the female, 

 and two in the male line; and, further still, that in each of these 

 two main divisions we have tribes some of which count descent in 

 what is known as the direct, and others in the indirect female or 

 male line, as the ease may be. (Maps A and B.) 



We will take the Urabunna, of Central Australia, and the 

 Kamilaroi, of New South Wales, as representative of female 

 descent, and the Warramunga, of the Northern Territory, and 

 the Mara, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, as representative of the 



