PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 397 



Some Bardu wonga kinship terms are as un^er (Boorong woman 

 speaking) — 



Thurduna — sister (Boorong). 



Kurdali — brother ( Boorong) . 



Mamana — father (Tharuru) . 



Yaguna — mother (Ibarrga). / 



Kamuru— mother's brother (own) (Ibax*rga). 



Wabadhu — husband's father (Ibarrga). 



Ngunari — father's sister — (Tharuru). 



Mardung'u — husband (Kaimera). 



Wajira, kardega — husband's brother (Kaimera). 



Dhuari — husband's sister (Kaimera). 



Kadha — daughter, son (Ibarrga). 



I would direct attention to the similarity of these names 

 Ibarrga and Jaruru (or Tharuru) to the names given to two 

 northern tribes — the Ibarrga, whose territory is somewhere east 

 or south-east of the Nyamel tribe, and the Jaruru, which was 

 given me by some Hall's Creek native prisoners at Rottnest and 

 elsewhere, as the name of their tribe. Why these tribal names 

 should take the place of class names in the eastern division I 

 could not discover but I hope some day to be able to journey by 

 easy stages from the Bardu wonga tribe northward, deviating 

 towards Hall's Creek, when probably I shall find why and where 

 the names have been changed from tribe to class. 



It would be impossible to accurately define the boundaries of 



\the tribes possessing the above class system. The deviation of 

 bheir line or route is apparent from the districts where the arrange- 

 ment is found. The D,argari people, near Kennedy Range (neigh- 

 1j*>uring tribe on west, Ingara) apparently followed this system, 

 and again at Mt. Clei-e, and Mt. Labouchere, the same system 

 vas followed, and at Lake Nabbern, Lake Darlot, Bates Range, 

 Erlestoun, Laverton, and eastward into the spinifex country. 



All these ti'ibes practise circumcision and sub-incision. 



The totemic system of these tribes is somewhat mcTre elaborate 

 than that of the western uncircumcised tribes. 



The Ngaiu wonga of the Yarnder district (Lake Way area) have 

 the jimari, or cutting flint used in the initiation ceremonies, as 

 their localized totem, and certain elder men amongst them can 

 produce jimari at will from their stomachs ! I possess two such 

 jimari, one taken from the stomach of Jal, a Ngaiu wonga Boorong 

 (Yarnder), and the other was produced from the stomach of 

 Jin'guru, a Ngaiu wonga Kaimera, also from Yarnder. 



These two men are ngabari (brother-in-law relationship) to 

 each other, and both decorated their mi (small churinga of 



Spencer and Gillen) with their jimari kurdaru (totem). The 

 mirudi varies in length from 2 or 3 inches to about 2 feet. The 

 jimari markings are concentric squares or concentric rings. Other 



