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ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES MADE ON THE SOUTH 
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT NORTH-WEST 
PROSPECTING EXPEDITION, 1903. 
Br HERBERT BAseDow. 
[Read June 7, 1904.] 
IBLATEB LLL mo XXI. 
The mineralogical duties in connection with my position of 
Prospector to the Government North-West Expedition did not 
permit of my making extensive anthropological observations, but 
the following facts are placed on record to afford some account 
of the natives of a region of Central Australia that has been 
practically unexplored, from an ethnological point of view, 
and to bring these tribes into comparison with those natives of 
Central and Northern Australia which the reports of the Elder 
and Horn Expeditions and the work of Messrs. Spencer and 
Gillen have made comparatively well known. I have divided 
the paper into two parts, the one being a general description, 
the other dealing with the question of native art. During our 
journey I collected a vocabulary of about 1,500 words of the 
Aluridja and Arunnda (Arunta) languages; but as this paper 
has exceeded its expected limits I am obliged to defer for the 
present the publication of that section of my notes. I have, 
however, included as an appendix a short vocabulary of the 
Karkurrerra Tribe inhabiting the Musgrave Ranges. 
PART I.—GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Tribes and their Distribution —The natives that inhabit the 
north-western corner of the State of South Australia proper 
and the south-western portion of the Northern Territory, that 
is, broadly speaking, the inhabitants of the ranges of these 
regions, are divided into four great divisions or tribes, differing 
but little, or not at all, in their chief characteristics. The names 
of these four tribes with their geographical distributions are 
as follows :—* 
i. THE KARKURRERRA Tripe.—These natives inhabit the 
greater portion of the Musgrave Ranges, more par- 
ticularly the southern limits. 
ii Тнв ALINJERRA TRIBE occupies the territory east of the 
Musgrave Ranges, extending both north and south. 
iii. THE WILRURRERRA (WILRUDDIDDA) TRIBE inhabits the 
country west of the Musgrave Ranges, extending north 
to the Petermann Ranges. 
iv. THE ULLPARIDJA TRiBE.— The Tomkinson and western 
Mann Ranges form the domain of this people. 
* These are the names of the recognised divisions or tribes in the 
broadest sense, much as one would call them Northern, Southern, etc. 
