78 R, H. MATHEWS. 



is still another partition of the community into Nhurrai, 

 the shade cast by the butt or lower portion of a tree and 

 Winggu, the shade thrown by the higher branches. The 

 Shades are apparently an extension of the Blood divisions, 

 and regulate the camping of the people under umbrageous 

 trees. A Guaigulir is always a Winggu and a Guaimun- 

 dhun is always a Nhurrai. 



The castes of Blood and Shade are not necessarily coin- 

 cident with the other divisions. For example, each cycle, 

 every section and every totemic group coutains people 

 belonging to the Guaigulir and Guaimundhun Bloods with 

 their corresponding Shades. Then as regards the descent, 

 a Guaigulir mother has a Guaigulir family of the Winggu 

 Shade, and a Guaimundhun mother's children inherit her 

 Blood and Shade nomenclature; just in the same way that 

 the children of a woman of the Bandicoot totem are 

 Bandicoots like herself. 



I shall now tabulate the pedigrees of ten couples or 

 twenty married persons belonging to the southern portion 

 of the Ngeumba territory. Every one of these individuals 

 was examined by myself and I am supplying the names of 

 my native informants. 



Examining the following table, we find the person we are 

 dealing with whom we have called the "Individual," in the 

 central column. No. 1, Jack Onze, of the section Ippai, 

 and a Guaigulir. No. 1a, Nellie his wife, a Matha and a 

 Guaimundhun, contracted to G'dhun to make it fit into the 

 narrow column. I have not encumbered the table with 

 Shades, because in every instance yet met with a Guaigulir 

 is a Winggu and a Guaimundhun a Nhurrai. In the next 

 column to the right of Jack and Nellie is their child, a 

 Kubbi, who has the same Blood and Shade as his mother 

 Nellie. On the left of No. 1 is Jack Onze's mother, an 

 Ippatha and of the same blood as himself. In the extreme 



