t42 G. Home: Gylindrico-Conical and Gornute Stones. 



Take for instance the following list of works quoted from E. M. 

 ■ Curr, Australian Race, Vol. II., p. 168. 



. Eiifflish. 



Darling Langiiage. 



Lake Eyre 

 Languages. 



Locality. 



mother 



- Ngamukka 



Namika . 



Mt. Serle 



water 



- Ngookoo 



Nguka . 



Cooper's Creek 



rain 



- Mukkra 



Mukkra . 



Mt. Remarkable 



kangaroo 



- Thurlda 



Thuldra . 



Cooper's Creek, etc. 



opossum 



- Bilta 



Pilta 



Widely spread 



native com- 



- Kooroolko 



Booralko- 



Cooper's Creek, etc. 



panion 



- 







one 



- Nitcha 



Ninta . 



Macumba R. 



mosquito 



- Koondee 



Koontee . 



Cooper's Creek, etc. 



ear 



- Uri 



Uri 



common 



mouth 



- Yalla 



Yalla - 



Umbertana 



fire 



- Kulla 



Kalla - 



Marachovle 



boomerang 



- Wana 



Wanna - 



Beltana 



night 



- Tunka 



Tinka . 



Cooper's Creek 



Then again on both, sides of the ranges we find that there are 

 two exogamous intermarrying classes with female descent. 3 



These are bounded on the east and north by tribes with four 

 classes; and on the west and north by those with four intermarrying 

 .groups and descent in the paternal line.* 



The only thing that can be suggested is that a series of dry 

 seasons, or some plague, drove away all the natives from the Darling 

 Valley, from which they fled, leaving the cylindrico-conical stones. 

 There is a tradition, quoted by Commissioner Lochardt,^ that a second 

 migration took place long ago, when one man with his two wives, Kil- 

 para and Mukwara, occupied the empty country. These two wives gave 

 class names to the Darling tribes,^ and, judging by the language 

 resemblances, their arrival could have been at no great date. That 

 •circumcision would not be practised amongst these immigrants would, 

 as Curr suggests, be obvious, because the small party could not 

 .afford to lose any of its members and food for all was assured. 



Bibliography. 



1. Walter R. Harper, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. Vol. 23, 1898, pp. 420- 

 436. 



2. Dr. Cox, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 25th June, 1884. 



3. W. Freeman, Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc. Vol. IX., 1902, p. 539. 



4. R. H. Matthews, Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sc. Vol. XII., 1909, pp. 493- 

 498. 



5. R. Etheridge, Jun. Mem. Geolog. Surv., N.S.W. , pp. 1-4. 



6. Mrs. Rankin, Science of Man, Aboriginal grave at Terragon. 



7. R. Pulleine, M.B., Ch.M., Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A. Vol. XLVI., 1922. 



3. Howitt, loc. cit., p. 90. 



4. Spencer and Gillen. " Northern Tribes .of Central Australia." p. 74. 



5. Curr., Australian Race, Vol II., Book 7. 



6. Howitt, loc. cit. p. 97. Ourr, loc. cit. 



