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Arranda. One method is exemplified by the four marriages 

 in Table II, p. 69 of my paper of August last. This prac- 

 tice is in accordance with the tabular marriages of the 

 Chingalee, Binbingha, Wombaia and other northern tribes. 

 Another method is exemplified by seven of the marriages in 

 Table B of this treatise, in cases where a man takes an 

 alternative spouse. This law apparently had its origin in 

 the coalescence of the southern and northern factions of 

 the tribe. A third method, in which descent is counted as 

 in Table A, is a continuance or survival of the old law of 

 the soutliern branch of the Arranda. In the last two 

 methods, which may be bracketed together, the child 

 receives the section name which corresponds to that of 

 both its father's father and its mother's mother. 



Looking at Table B, we discover an example of still 

 another variation in the marriages of the Arranda. Abel, 

 No. 8, is a Mbit j ana man, married to Ruby, a Kamara. 

 She is what I have called a No. Ill wife, in dealing with 

 the Chingalee sociology at p. 71 of my monograph of 

 August last. 



Referring to Table I of my paper of last August, we see 

 that the pair of women, Purula + Ngala, are the mothers 

 of the pair of women Bangata + Paltara, and this series 

 recurs in perpetual alternation. Each pair consists of one 

 woman from a primary section in Table A, and another 

 woman from a complementary section in Table I of August 

 last. These pairs could be tabulated as follows: 



Table C. 

 Cycle. Wife. Husband. Offspring. 



. i Purula + Ngala Pananka + Knuraia Bangata + Paltara 



' Bangata + Paltara Mbitjana + Kamara Ngala + Purula 



-d f Pananka + Knuraia Purula + Ngala Kamara + Mbitjana 

 i Kamara + Mbitjana Paltara + Bangata Knuraia + Pananka 



