NOTES ON SOME ABORIGINAL TRIBES. 73 



although nominally dealing with four married pairs, actu- 

 ally gives the section names of twelve men, as well as the 

 sections to which their wives belong. The same remark 

 applies to Table II, ante. 



Although I have occasionally collected lists of native 

 words for different degrees of relationship, I have not yet 

 published any of them. There are generally so many 

 different persons who could come under any given name, 

 that a list would not be of much value other than as a 

 vocabulary. For example, a man's father, mother's father, 

 father's father, son's wife, daughter's husband, etc., could 

 belong to any one of 'four sections. Unless we first of all 

 have the section name, we cannot identify the division of 

 any one of the people just mentioned, by their so called 

 "relationship terms." These terms do not define either 

 kinship or consanguinity. 



In the same way there are many other names of kindred 

 whose section names differ with the man or woman the 

 individual has married. To hear one man address another 

 gives no definite idea of either the cycle or the section to 

 which the person addressed belongs. In the Ohingalee 

 tribe a man's father is Keeta. 1 Looking at Table IV, if we 

 take No. 1a, Minnie, a Ohula, we see that her father, 

 whom she speaks of as keeta, instead ef being Chemara as 

 in Table III, is actually Tungaree, a man of the opposite 

 cycle to Chemara. 



With regard to the well known sexual license which is 

 permitted at important native ceremonies all over Aus- 

 tralia, I requested some of my correspondents in the 

 Northern Territory to obtain the names of the sections of 

 the men who participated. 2 The result was that in most 



1 Queensland Geographical Journal, xvi., (1901), p. 87, in my Vocabu- 

 lary of Chingalee words. 



2 Queensland Geographical Journal, xx-, 68. 



