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A few kinship terms in the dialect of the Widagari tribe are 

 here given (Boorong woman speaking) — 



Jurdu — sister (Boorong), 



Kurdana — brother (Boorong). 



Kalyana — father (Kaimera). 



Ngardina — mother (Banaka). 



Yarn; Yarugiir — father's sister (Kaimera). 



Koggardi — mother's brother (Banaka). 



Nyubana — husband (Paljari). 



Thooa — husband's mother (Kaimera). 



Miin'goora; jilya — son, daughter (Banaka). 



West Pilbara. 



The class system of the West Pilbara tribes — the Karriara, 

 Ngaluma, Mardatunera, and Kau'arndhari — and the marriage 

 laws of these people are similar to those of West Kimberley Divi- 

 sion, and are as follows : — 



Male. Female, Offspring. 



A. Boorong = B. Banaka . . C. Kaimera 



B. Banaka = A. Boorong . . D. Paljari 



C. Kaimera = D. Paljari . . A. Boorong 



D. Paljari = C. Kaimera . . B. Banaka 



These tribes occupy the coast between Port Hedland and* a 

 point somewhere west of Roebourne. 



Cross-cousin marriages are permitted in the Karriara and 

 Ngaluma tribes. I am not quite sure if they are permitted in the 

 Mardatunera and Kauarndhari. 



At Balla-balla, a point on the coast between Port Hedland and 

 Eoebourne, the line of demarcation between the circumcised and 

 uncircumcised people begins, and this line runs southward, at 

 varying distances, along the western and southern coast, until it 

 again finds an outlet at Point Malcolm, between Esperance and 

 Israelite Bay, on the southern' coast. I have ascertained as defi- 

 nitely as it was possible to do, that the custom of circumcision 

 was encroaching upon the western and southern borders at the 

 time of white settlement, and in the Champion Bay district the 

 circumcised tribes had reached within 20 miles of the coast. 

 Adoption into circumcised local groups is going on even at the 

 present day. A Minung man (southern Phratry) was adopted into 

 a circumcised local group in the Eastern Gold-fields district, and 

 an Ashburton coastal native belonging to the Tallainji (uncircum- 

 cised) tribe was adopted into the Warianga tribe, and circumcised 

 by the Warianga people. Numerous instances of members of uu- 



