164 The Glassificatory System of 



certain names, one of which every blackfellow bears. These 

 are ; — 



Class 1. Ippai, male. Ippatha, female. 



2. Murri „ .Hatha 



3. Kubbi „ Kubbotha ,, 



4. Kumbo „ Butha ,, 



Ippai and Ippatha of the same generation are brother and 

 sister ; so also with the other pairs. 



Upon this classification, certain laws of marriage and 

 descent are founded. 



1. Ippai marries Kubbotha. Their children are Murri 

 and Matha. 



2. Murri marries Butha. Their children are Ippai and 

 Ippatha. 



3. Kubbi marries Ippatha. Their children are Kumbo 

 and Butha. 



4. Kumbo marries Matha. Their children are Kubbi 

 and Kubbotha. 



Assuming as a postulate what subsequent inquiry 

 verified as a fact, that all men of the same class-name in the 

 same generation are brothers in theory, and that all women 

 of the same class-name in the same generation are sisters in 

 theory, I elaborated from these class-names and the laws 

 founded upon them the whole kinship system of these 

 natives, which I found to present the Ganowanian character- 

 istics. My memoranda thereon have since been published 

 by the Smithsonian ; and I have recently had the intense 

 gratification of receivino- from the Bev. E. Fuller, of Eraser's 

 Island, Queensland, one of my printed schedules filled up 

 with the system of a Queensland tribe, which on the more 

 important points, beautifully confirms my theory ; though 

 it presents one strange anomaly which is very puzzling. 



It is evident at a glance that this classification must 

 break up the Communal Family, inasmuch as it prohibits 

 intermarriage between brothers and sisters ; for you will 

 observe that a man must always marry into a class other 

 than his own ; and if the system accept all the logical 

 consequences of this law, it must be identical with the 

 Ganowanian. I have, however, reason to suspect that 

 among those natives, the seed of progress fell on stony 

 ground, and did not bring forth fruit to perfection. 



A gentleman named Lance, of Bungawalbyn, on the Upper 



