NOTES ON SOME ABORIGINAL TRIBES. 



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Cycle 



A 



. Wife. 



/Ohungalee 

 I Chula 



Table III. 

 Husband. 



Ohimitcha 

 Ohuna 



Offspring. 



Taralee 

 Tungaree 





Taralee 



1 



Ohemara 



Chula 





v Tungaree 



Ohampina 



Ohungalee 



B 



/Ohimitcha 

 J Ohuna 



Cliungalee 

 Chula 



Ohampina 

 Chemara 



Ohampina 

 ' Ohemara 



Tungaree 

 Taralee 



Ohuna 

 Ohimitcha 



The above table shows that the tribe is classified into 

 two cycles or phratries A and B, like the Arranda, each 

 cycle containing four sections. The women of a cycle, A 

 for example, have perpetual succession in a prescribed 

 order the same as the Arranda. Every woman has brothers 

 of the same section as herself. 



If we take the first name in the table, it will serve as an 

 illustration of all the others. Chimitcha's "tabular" or 

 normal wife is Ohungalee, whom we shall call No. I. He 

 can in certain cases marry Ohula, whom we have denomin- 

 ated his "alternative" wife or No. II. Or he can take a 

 Ohuna woman, distinguished as No. III. And further, 

 Ohimitcha may espouse a Ohimitcha maiden, whom we 

 shall set down as his No. IV wife. Looking at the table 

 we observe that two of Chimitcha's possible wives belong 

 to Cycle B and two to Cycle A, and it is manifest that the 

 denomination of his children will depend upon the woman 

 he takes for his wife. 



In further explanation of Table III., a woman may like- 

 wise be alloted a partner from any one of four sections, two 

 of whom belong to the opposite cycle and two to her own. 

 Ohungalee the first woman in the table may marry Ohimitcha 

 as her No. I husband, Ohuna as No. II, or Ohula as No. Ill, 



