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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



male 'descent tribes. The organization can be shown in tabular 

 form for each tribe, as follows : — 



Female Descent Tribes. 



(A) Urahunna. 



Moieties 



Matthuri (m.) . . 

 Kirarawa (m.) . . 



Kirarawa (f.) 

 Matthuri (f.) 



Children — 

 Kirarawa (m. and f.) 



Matthuri (m. and f.) 



There are two moieties — Matthuri and Kirarawa. A Matthuri 

 man marries a Kirarawa woman, and the children are Kirarawa, 

 and vice versa. 



(B) Kamilaroi. 



There are two moieties — Kupathin and Dilbi — each divided into 

 two classes. (^) An Ipai man marries a Kuibbi woman, and their 

 children are Murri; a Kubbi man marries an Ipai woman, and 

 their children are Kumbo, that is, the children pass into the 

 mother's moiety, but into the class to which she does not belong, 

 giving us an example of what is known as indirect female descent. 



Male Descent Tkibes. 

 (C) Mara. 



In this tribe, which is typical of a group on the western shores 

 of the Gulf of Carpentaria, we have descent counted in the direct 

 male line, as far as the class is concerned, but in reality each class 

 ifi divided into two unnamed groups. If, for example, in 

 Murungun we call these Murungun A and Murungun B, then the 

 childre n of Murungun A are Murungun B, and vice versa.. 



(M In each table a man of column 1 marries a woman on the same level in column 2 and the 

 children are^shown on the same level in column 3. A man of column 2 marries a woman of column 1 

 and their children are shown on column 4. 



