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mother was Purula and her father Pananka. We have, 

 therefore three generations on the same line across the 

 page, the parents, the grand-parents and the children. We 

 also observe that the sections of each married pair, the 

 sections of their parents, and the section name of the 

 progeny are exactly in accord with Table I. If we had 

 selected a list of men who had married alternative or No. 

 II wives, the details would have been different. 1 



When the Arranda people are in camp, the fathers and 

 sons will have their resting places near each other, because 

 the sons belong to their father's tribe and inherit their 

 father's hunting grounds. For example, the Pananka and 

 Baugata men will be close together; the Purula and 

 Kamara men will also be near one another ; and so on for 

 all the men of the other sections who stand in the relation- 

 ship of fathers and sons. This fact has caused superficial 

 observers to believe that the sections which camp together 

 in this way are those belonging to the same cycle or phratry. 



Just the contrary is the fact — the fathers and the sons 

 belong to opposite phratries or cycles, although they belong 

 to the same local division of the tribe and frequently roam 

 about together. 



In order to further test the line of descent among tribes 

 possessing eight subdivisions, I requested another com- 

 petent correspondent to obtain genealogies of several 

 married pairs in the Chingalee tribe about Powell's Creek 

 and Daly Waters. To enable us to understand the genea- 

 logies, it will be necessary to tabulate the eight inter- 

 marrying sections, first published by me in 1900 : — 2 



1 Compare with table on p. 72, Vol. xxxn., this Journal. 



a American Anthropologist, II., N.S., 495, with map. The full form of 

 most of the section names has the termination inja, as Chungaleeinja, 

 Chulainja, and so on, but this common ending is omitted in Table III. 



