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adjoin the Narrinyeri, the descent is on the mother’s side, although 
they marry into the phratry of the father, and the children are 
brought up in his tribe. 
VI. THE Booanpik NATION. 
More than three-fourths of the entire area of this nation is situated 
on the other side of the boundary between South Australia and Victo- 
ria, and their social organization has been described in my paper on 
the aborigines of the lattercolony.* I wish torepeat here, however, 
that the community is divided into two intermarrying phratries, 
called Krokitch and Kamatch. If a man belongs to the Krokitch 
division his wife must be taken from among the Kamatch people, 
and wice versa—the children taking the name of the phratry to 
which their mother belongs. 
VII. THe KookxatTHa NATION. 
Lying to the west of the Parnkalla, Hillary and Arrabunna Na- 
tions, the country is occupied by several tribes, including the Koo- 
katha, Geebera, Wirrunga, YiJrea, Warnabinnie and some others. 
This aggregate of people will be designated the Kookatha Nation, 
and the following is a brief outline of the geographic distribution 
of the different tribes composing it. 
The Kookatha tribe extends from the Stuart Range, taking in 
Lake Phillipson, Mount Eba Station, Wilgena Station, Mount 
Finke and Lake Bring. The Geebera people are on the north of 
Lake Gairdner. Between the Gawler ranges and the head of the 
Great Australian Bight we encounter the Wirrunga, Yilrea, Warna- 
binnie and other tribes, inhabiting the coastal districts. The peo- 
ple of the interior are more friendly among themselves than with 
the coast people, and speak a slightly different dialect. They all 
mix together, however, in their great corrobories, and have simi- 
lar ceremonies of circumcision, subincision and the enlargement of 
the vaginal orifice. The coast tribes do not extract a front tooth 
from the upper jaw of the males, but this custom prevails all over 
the back country. 
In the Geebera tribe, and for a long way westward of them, the 
two intermarrying phratries are designated Kookoojiba and Koo- 
cheebinga, and the resulting offspring take the name of their 
1 American Anthropologist, xi, 331-336. 
