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marriages among the Arranda. Mr. Schulze, however, 

 arrived at the conclusion that descent was paternal, and the 

 same opinion was subsequently adopted by Spencer and 

 Gillen in their book dealing with the natives of that district. 1 

 With the view of throwing additional light upon the dis- 

 puted question of succession, I obtained from one of my 

 most capable correspondents, residing in that locality, the 

 names of more than a dozen married pairs, with their 

 pedigrees, reaching back one generation, and forward one 

 generation, from which I have taken at random the four 

 couples given in the following table. In these four cases, 

 each man is married to a tabular or No. I wife : — 



Table II. 



father of 



Mother of 



Individual answering' the Questions'. 



Child of 



Individual. 



Section. 



Section. Section. 



No. 



1 

 lA 



2 

 2a 



3 



3a 



4 

 4a 



Proper Name. 



Section. 



Ngala 

 Pananka 



Paltara 

 Mbitjana 



Knuraia 

 Purula 



Pananka 

 Ngala 



Knuraia 

 Purula 



Kamara 

 Bangata 



Ngala 

 Pananka 



Purula 

 Knuraia 



Paul 



Helena 



Moses 

 Sophia 



Peter 

 Rebecca 



Nathaniel 

 Maria 



Mbitjana 

 Bangata 



Knuraia 

 Ngala 



Paltara 

 Kamara 



Bangata 

 Mbitjana 



> Ngala 



> Paltara 



> Knuraia 



> Pananka 



An explanation of one of the married couples in the above 

 table will answer for all the rest. I have given the English 

 name of each person, so that they can be easily found and 

 further interrogated. No. 1, Paul, a Mbitjana, marries 

 Helena, No. 1a, a Bangata, and their children are Ngala. 

 On the same line and to the left of Paul, we find Knuraia, 

 the section of his mother ; and a little farther to the left, 

 in the next column, is Ngala, the section to which Paul's 

 father belongs. Taking No. 1a we find that Helena's 



1 Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 70. 



