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[jaga] is the Eucla area word for "mother" and is the south- 

 west Australian word for "woman" [jaga, joga, jog]. 



Place-names near Eucla. 



[ku : lbari], the last male native of Ilgamba Water, 

 properly [ji :lga'amba], name of permanent water at the head 

 of the Bight, stated that, besides Ilgamba, the following were 

 landing-places on the cliffs between Ilgamba and Eucla 

 [ji:rgili]: — 



5u:landa (Sponge Cove, about 3 miles west of Ilgamba). 



qo : b^rnda. 



kardulba or kardu'ulba. 



bi :na. 



burdin'jerba or burdin'gerba. 



mardi' e : tq-tj (about 14 miles east of Eucla). 



Fishing for seal [balg^rda] and little penguin [5u:lea] 

 took place at certain seasons, the Ilgamba and Eucla natives 

 often joining in these fishing expeditions. Descent was ex- 

 tremely dangerous at some of the landing places ; 

 [mardi'eira??] is easy of access and is often visited by the 

 Eucla telegraphists. At [kaldiljera], about six miles from 

 Eucla, Eyre noticed the "cutting-flint quarry" on the top of 

 the cliff. The white cutting-flints [djaljir] from [kaldiljera] 

 were bartered by the Eucla natives to tribes west and east of 

 them . 



Class Systems. 



I can find no class system, such as obtains among the 

 Dieri, Urabunna, Luritcha, and other tribes mentioned by 

 Howitt and Spencer and Gillen, amongst these tribes of the 

 West Coast and the tribes of the Border and Eucla areas. 

 The two-class system, similar to that of the Dieri, but with 

 different bird names, obtains in the south-west of W T estern 

 Australia, and also bears on colours — white cockatoo and 

 crow, light and dark purple. The four-class system obtains 

 amongst the circumcized tribes bordering the south-west of 

 Western Australia and up to West Kimberley ; in the north- 

 east Kimberley has a sixteen-class system. Somewhere south- 

 east of Kalgoorlie the four-class system dies out, and as the 

 natives of the south-east areas say, "Marriages and rela- 

 tionships go by faces" (probably light and dark colour). I 

 have not previously visited the south-east Kalgoorlie area, 

 where the class system dies out. It would be interesting to 

 know where Spencer and Gillen's northern class systems stop, 

 and by what system they are replaced. The Eucla. area 

 system was one of small totemic groups, and apparently the 



