564 MATHEWS—THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. [Oct. 5, 
sion on the same principle as the Yowerawarrika, where the children 
took the /ofem of the father. 
Strength is given to the hypothesis of the coalescence of two 
tribes by the fact that in an adjoining community, the Barkunjee, 
we discover the phratry name Keelparra, evidently a dialectic modi- 
fication of Koolpirro, which indicates that the tribe of that name in 
olden times was widespread, and perhaps powerful. Among the 
Barkunjee, however, Keelparra marries Muckwarra, the latter prob- 
ably being the name of another vanquished or allied tribe occupying 
different territory, and the two phratries became Keelparra and 
Muckwarra. 
We will now try to account for the introduction of the organiza- 
tion containing four divisions. The Warkeemon community in north- 
eastern Queensland, first reported by me in 1898," is divided into 
four sections called respectively Koopungie, Karpungie, Kellungie 
and Cheekungie. Perhaps each of these names represented a small 
independent tribe or clan in former times, having the Zooar system 
of relationship. ‘To avoid repetition let us assume that Koopungie 
and Karpungie became incorporated either by conquest or other- 
wise, and intermarried on the same principle as Koolpirro and Tin- 
nawa already dealt with. We will also suppose that Kellungie and 
Cheekungie amalgamated in a similar manner, and intermarried one 
with the other. This can be made clear by means of Tables Nos. 2 
and 3, which will also show how the children were called, for dis- 
tinction, by the same name as their mother in each case: 
TaBLE No. 2. 
Phratry. Husband. Wife. Child, 
A Koopungie Karpungie Karpungie 
B Karpungie Koopungie Koopungie 
TaBLE No. 3. 
Phratry. Husband. Wife. Child, 
A Kellungie Cheekungie Cheekungie 
B Cheekungie Kellungie Kellungie 
We will now assume that the Koopungie and Karpungie confed- 
eracy (Table No. 2) subjugated the Kellungie and Cheekungie 
confederacy (Table No. 3); or that these two peoples thought it 
1 Yourn. Roy. Soc. N, S. Wales, vol, xxxii, pp. 250, 251. 
