98 ON THE ORGANISATION OF AUSTRALIAN TRIBES. 
Kaiabava tribe, Bunya Bunya Mountains, Queensland—Sub-Inspector J. Brooke. 
Gringai tribe, New South Wales—Mr. A. Hooke, per Dr. Fraser. 
Dieri tribe, Lake Eyre, South Australia—Mr. S. Gason and the Revs. H. 
Vogelsang, Meyer, and Flierl. 
StructurE oF ABORIGINAL SocrETY IN AUSTRALIA. 
(a) The Social Organisation.—It may be laid down as a general proposition 
that all Australian tribes are divided into two moieties, which intermarry with each 
other, and each of which is forbidden to marry within itself. In certain rare cases 
these two moieties cannot be distinguished in the familiar form in which they usually 
present themselves to the investigator, but usually cases can be found which will fully 
justify the belief that they also at one time existed in these exceptional communities. 
As an example for the purposes of this paper, I take the case of a Queensland tribe 
in which the two inter-marrying moieties in dialectically varying names have a wide 
geographical range, and as to which the information furnished by a most competent 
authority is full and exact.* The tribe referred to is the Wakelbura,+ on the 
Belyando River. It will serve as a type of many other tribes extending over a 
thousand miles north and south, and at least five hundred miles east and west. I 
subjoin once for all, for present as well as for future reference, the full class system 
of this tribe in a tabulated form :— 
WAKELBURA CLASS SYSTEM. 
Two Primary CrassEs. Four SuB-cLassEs. Totem Namzs.t 
/ Plain Turkey 
Kiirgila 
Small Bee 
Malera. Opossum 
| Bale Kangaroo 
and others. 
Emu 
Wiingo Carpet Snake 
Large Bee 
Wiithera 
Gidea Tree 
be Black Duck 
and others. | 
| 
* Mr. J. C. Muirhead. 
+ From Wakel = Eels. ‘‘Bura” appears to be analogous to the Kamilaroi suffix ‘“aroi,”” which may be translated 
“of” or ** belonging to.” 
+ The English equivalents of the totem names are here given. 
