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is found in the Chula, Cluma and Oliemara sections. The 

 iguana is a totem in the Taralee, Chula, Champina, Chuna 

 and Tungaree sections. 



If we compare these examples with my bisection of the 

 Ohingalee tribe, Table III, or with Spencer and Gillen's 

 bisection, Table VI, we discover that the totems are 

 scattered up and down in both moieties. Moreover, if 

 we look again at Table VII we observe that the father and 

 the mother of No. 5 both have the same species of animal 

 for their totem. The father and mother of No. 8 are like- 

 wise both of the same totem. It is erroneous therefore, to 

 state that the totems are divided into two groups or cycles; 

 and the assertion that a man never marries a woman of his 

 own totem is equally in error. 



Spencer and Gillen in dealing with the Warramunga, 

 Ohingalee and Binbingha tribes, have reported that the 

 descent of the phratries (cycles) as well as of the sections 

 is determined through the men; that the descent of the 

 totems is almost without exception in the paternal line; 

 and that the totems are markedly divided into two groups. 1 

 It is hoped that the facts which I have set forth in the 

 preceding pages have made the following facts sufficiently 

 conspicuous : (1) That the sections devolve through the 

 mother only. (2) That the cycles (or phratries) also have 

 descent through the women. (3) That the descent of the 

 totems is not in the paternal line, but follows the same 

 rules which I formerly explained in regard to the Chauan 

 tribe. 2 (4) That the totems are not divided into two groups 

 but are to be found in both parts of every possible bisection 

 of a tribe. (5) And that a man can occasionally marry a 

 a woman of his own totem. 



1 Loc. tit., pp. 163 and 166. 

 2 This Journal, xl., pp. 105 - 111. 



