150 R. H. MATHEWS. 



Sociology. 



Iq an article read before this Society on 7th August last 

 I very briefly referred to the sociology of the northern 

 portion of the Arranda tribe, with eight intermarrying 

 divisions. 1 I now intend to shortly describe the sociology 

 of the southern branch of that tribe, in which there are 

 four divisions, instead of eight, as follows: 



Table A. 

 Cycle. Wife. Husband. Offspring. 



A ( Purula Pananka Paltara 



I Paltara Kamara Purula 



^ I Pananka Purula Kamara 



[ Kamara Paltara Pananka 



in 1877 a Mission Station was established at Hermanns- 

 burg on the Pinke River, in the territory of the southern 

 bianch of the Arranda. To this Mission Station there also 

 came natives from the northern part of the country with 

 eight partitions in their sociology. The two parts of the 

 Arranda nation, the northern and the southern, which we 

 may provisionally distinguish as Factions, for want of a 

 better name, never became quite consolidated, although 

 they intermarried and mixed freely with each other. The 

 northern faction pursued the laws of marriage set out in 

 Tables I and II of my paper of August last ; whilst among 

 the southern faction the four section system shown in 

 Table A above, was considered the primary or fundamental 

 one, and the additional four sections of the northerners 

 were merely looked upon as complementary. 



It now becomes necessary to introduce a table showing 

 actual examples of the marriage of individuals who are all 

 well known to my correspondents. 



1 This Journal, Vol. xli., pp. 67 - 70, Tables I and II. 



