86 R. H. MATHEWS. 



In the foregoing pages we have been dealing with tribes 

 containing eight sections in their organisation, and it is 

 thought that a brief review of a tribe comprising only four 

 sections may further enable the student of Australian 

 ethnology to more readily grasp the subject. The follow- 

 ing table exhibits the constitution of the Kamilaroi, 

 Ngeumba and kindred tribes. The feminine forms of the 

 section names are omitteci. 



Table VIII. 

 Cycle. Wife. Husband. Offspring. 



A C Kumbo Mum Ippai 



( ippai Kubbi Kumbo 



■j3 I Murri Kumbo Kubbi 



I Kubbi Ippai Murri 



In this table the women of the tribe are classified into 

 two cycles which reproduce themselves for ever, just the 

 same as in the Ohiugalee, Binbingha, Warramonga and 

 other tribes, except that there are only two sections in a 

 cycle instead of four. It is unnecessary to explain how the 

 cycles, and the sections have descent through the women 

 and that there is an absence of absolute exogamy, because 

 all this has been abundantly illustrated by me in other 

 publications. 1 



But if we bisect the cycles of women the same as 

 Spencer aud Gillen have bisected the cycles of the women 

 in the Chingalee, etc., we get the following table: 



Table [X. 

 Cycle. Wife. Husband. Offspring. 



A ( Kumbo Murri Ippai 



1 Kubbi Ippai Murri 



jy \ Murri Kumbo Kubbi 



i Ippai Kubbi Kumbo 



In this rearrangement of the sections in the table, we 

 have taken half the women in Cycle A, Table VIII, namely 



1 This Journal, xxxix., 116, 117; American Antiquarian, xxviii., 86. 



