568 MATHEWS—THE AUSYRALIAN ABORIGINES. [Oct. 5, 
These four men belong to phratry B. The intermarrying sections 
of the new organization and those of the resulting offspring are as 
follows: 
TABLE NON otis 
Phratry. Husband. Wife. Child. 
( Choolum Chingulum Palyaringie 
n } Cheenum Chooralum Bungaringie 
} Jamerum Palyaringie Chooralum 
\ Yacomary Bungaringie Chingulum 
fj Chingulum Choolum Yacomary 
B ; Chooralum Cheenum Jamerum 
' Bungaringie Yacomary Cheenum 
\ Palyaringie Jamerum Choolum 
This redistribution of the wives of the men necessarily varies the 
brother-in-law relationships. The men of the Choolum section in 
Table No. 11 exchange sisters with the men of the Chingulum sec- 
tion; the Cheenum men marry the sisters of the Chooralum men 
and vice versa; the Bungaringié men and the Yacomary men ex- 
change sisters as wives; and lastly the Palyaringie and Jamerum 
men mutually intermarry with each other’s sisters. In every case, 
however, the section name of each man’s offspring remains as it was 
prior to the coalition—thus, Choolum’s children are called Palya- 
ringie the same as they appear in Table No. 7, and Palyaringie’s 
progeny still retain the name of Choolum. 
According to Table No. 11 the wife of Choolum should be a 
Chingulum woman, but by virtue of tribal custom he has the alter- 
native of marrying a Chooralum. If he choose a Chingulum his 
children will be Palyaringie, but if he take a Chooralum wife the 
progeny will be Bungaringie, the section name of the offspring 
being regulated by the mother’s division. A man of the Cheenum 
section, whose tabular wife is Chooralum, can marry a Palyaringie 
woman. In other words, the men of the pair of sections, Choolum 
and Cheenum, can exercise their choice of a spouse over the same 
two sections of women. Similar privileges are possessed by the 
men of the other pairs of sections, namely, Jamerum and Yacomary 
—Chingulum and Chooralum—and Bungaringie and Palyaringie, 
who can select their wives from either of the corresponding pairs of 
females in Table No. 11. Numbers of different totems are annexed 
to the divisions. 
The theory of the coalition of a number of small tribes within the 
