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The tribes following this system are the Mai'al'nga (Glenelg 

 River), Tohau'-i (Sunday Id.), Barda (Swan Point), Nyul-nyul 

 (Beagle Bay), Warrwai and Nyi-gini (Derby district), Kularra- 

 bulu (Broome), Yauera (east of Broome), Warrangari (partly), 

 (Fitzroy, &c.). 



Members of some of these tribes have intermarried with the 

 East Kimberley tribes, the co-arrangement of the respective class 

 systems of East and West Kimberley being as follows : — 



West Kimbsrloy. East Kimberley. 



A Boorong . . . . . . f A Jaualyi. 



I A' Ngauajil. 

 B Banaka . . . . . . 1 B Jaggara. 



] B' Ngaggara. 

 C Kaimera . . . . . . ( C Jung'ara. 



) C NganjeU. 

 D Paljari . . . . . . j D Jang'ala. 



) D' Ngang'ala. 



The totems of the West Kimberley tribes (jal'uga — Broome and 

 Beagle Bay equivalents for totem) are hereditary and exogamous, 

 and there are also individual totems. The increase of the totem 

 is usually dreamed by the totemists. A Kaimera son inherits his 

 Boorong father's totems, and passes them on to his own Boorong 

 son; but he also brings an individual totem with him when he is 

 born. The Broome district natives believe that every baby must 

 be dreamed by its father before it comes into the world, and this 

 " dream baby " is called ngargalula. If the ngargalula does not 

 appear to its future father, and his wife gives birth to a child, the 

 father does not believe that the child belongs to him, since the 

 rigargalula did not come to him. Again, should a man have been 

 separated from his woman for some considerable time, and while 

 he is away from her a ngargalula comes to him in his dreams, 

 and should the woman have a baby in the meantime, the man 

 believes this baby to be his ngargalula baby, no matter what 

 length of time may have elapsed during which he has been apart 



