NOTES ON THE ARRANDA TRIBE. 155 



In the above table, the men of the pair of sections 

 Pananka + Knuraia intermarry with the women of the pair 

 of sections Purula + Ngala, and the children belong to the 

 pair of sections Bangata + Paltara. 



It will be convenient to call each of these pairs of sec- 

 tions a "dual" division and speak of it in the singular 

 number. For example, Pananka + Knuraia, the first pair 

 in the u Husband" column, may be spoken as a "dual" 

 husband or father; Purula + Ngala as a "dual" wife or 

 mother; and Bangata + Paltara as a "dual" child. We 

 can now illustrate that the "dual" Bangata + Paltara child 

 takes the section name of its "dual" father's (Pananka + 

 Knuraia's) "dual" father, Bangata + Paltara. We also see 

 that this child takes the section name of its "dual" mother's 

 (Purula + Ngala's) "dual" mother, Bangata+Paltara, being 

 in accordance with the well-known law of the Kamiiaroi 

 tribe, in which descent is always in the maternal line. 



A few pages back it was pointed out that according to 

 Table A, with only four divisions, the child takes the 

 section name of its mother's mother as well as that of its 

 father's father. In Table C, with each of the four sections 

 duplicated, we find that the succession is the same as in 

 Table A, because a primary and a complementary section 

 are treated as one. 



In what we may distinguish as "Mr. Schulze's reckoning 

 of descent" that is, where the section of the offspring is 

 the same no matter whether a given man marries a 

 "tabular" or an "alternative" wife, the rules of Table O 

 will meet all the cases Nos. 1 to 7 in Table B. But in 

 those instances where descent is counted as in Table I, p. 

 68 of this Journal, although a child inherits the name of 

 its father's father in "tabular" marriages, yet when a man 

 takes an "alternative" wife the succession of the father's 



