PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 435 



As the accompanying sketch map shows, the neighbours of the 

 •Ourang tribe were the Meerooni and Toolooa on the north, the 

 Tarambol on the west, and the Dappil and Wakka on the south. 

 This would leave no room for the Wokkari, shown to the east of 

 the Gurang in the map in my Two Eepresenfative Tribes of 

 Queensland. I suspect, therefore, that Wokkari must have been 

 given to me as the name of a tribe in that locality by mistake, or 

 otherwise must have been intended as a name for the Wakka. 



The Gurang territory covered all the basin of the Upper 

 Burnett, from about Gayndah northward, and, relying upon the 

 virtual identity of Curr's Baffle Creek vocabulary with that of 

 the Upper Burnett, in both of which the negative is gurang, the 

 inference seems safe that it embraced the basin of Baffle Creek 

 also, and, therefore, extended right to the coast where that creek 

 debouches. 



Social Organization. 



The Gurang had the four-class system, the same as the Wakka 

 to the south, and the Emon,* about Taroom, to the west. They 

 had not lost the two phratry names, as some other tribes had 

 done. 



Their svstem is shown thus : — 



Dilbai ( m., Bonda ; f., Bondagan 



m., Dherwain ; f., Dherwaingan. 

 m., Barang; f., Baranggan. 

 m., Bandyur; f., Bandyurgan. 



Kapaiin ( m., Barang; f., Baranggan 



Cohabitation and marriage were forbidden between members of 

 the same phratry. In other words, a Dilbai man must only marry 

 a Kapaiin woman. Members of the Bonda class married with 

 members of the Bandyur class, and members of the Dherwain 

 with those of the .Barang class. While this was the recognised 

 proper practice, there was no strict prohibition against inter- 

 marriage of Bonda with Barang or of Dherwain with Bandyur. 



Among the Kabi, further south, it did not matter much how 

 the classes mated so long as marriage was not within the 

 same phratry. 



Among the Gurang, as among the Wakka and Kabi, the class 

 of the mother determined the class of the offspring. The children 

 -were always of the same phratry with their mother, but of the class 

 different from hers. Hence descent was matrilineal. This is 

 contrary to Dr. Howitt's statements regarding descent in the tribes 

 of this part of Queensland. 



• Ho Witt, A. W., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 109. 



