566 MATHEWS—THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. [Oct. 5, 
Wombya tribe, which I discovered and reported in the beginning 
of 1898,’ will be used for illustration. The names of the sections 
are Choolum, Palyaringie, Cheenum, Bungaringie, Chingulum, 
Yacomary, Chooralum and Jamerum. We will commence with the 
first mentioned four of these names. 
Choolum is the father of Palyaringie, and by referring back to the 
Yowerawarrika tribe it is seen that the children in that system take 
the name of the mother; therefore I shall assume that formerly the 
Choolum and Palyaringie clans became consolidated by conquest or 
otherwise, in the same way as the tribes we have been describing. 
A Choolum man married a Palyaringie woman, and vice versa, the 
children taking the name of the mother in both cases (Table No. 5). 
A similar incorporation took place between the Cheenum and Bun- 
garingie clans (Table No. 6). Afterward these two confederacies 
amalgamated by interchanging their wives or sisters in the same 
manner as the Warkeemon people, thus transposing the intermarry- 
ing divisions, but leaving the names of the men’s offspring the same 
(Table No. 7). 
TABLE No. 5. 
Phratry. Husband. Wife. Child. 
A Choolum Palyaringie Palyaringie 
B Palyaringie Choolum Choolum 
TaBLE No. 6. 
Phratry. Husband. Wife. Child, 
A Cheenum Bungaringie Bungaringie 
B Bungaringie Cheenum Cheenum 
TABLE No. 7. 
Phratry. Husband, Wife. Child, 
x { Choolum Bungaringie Palyaringie 
Cheenum Palyaringie Bungaringie 
RB { Bungaringie Choolum Cheenum 
Palyaringie Cheenum Choolum 
We will now deal with the remaining four divisions of the 
Wombya tribe, namely, Chingulum, Yacomary, Chooralum and 
Jamerum. Atthe present day Chingulum is the father of Yacomary, 
and by again using the Yowerawarrika tribe as a basis, I will assume 
1Proc. AMER. PHILOs, SOC,, PHILADA., Vol. xxxvii, pp. I51, 152. 
