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father's section is extinguished, just as it is in the Chingalee, 

 Wombaia, Binbingha, Chauan and other tribes. 



This can be better illustrated by taking an example from 

 Table I, p. 68. If Pananka marries his "tabular" wife 

 Purula, the child will be Bangata, the same section name 

 as its father's father; but if he marries his " alternative" 

 wife Ngala, the child will be Paltara, regardless of Pan- 

 anka's father Bangata. That is, the name of Pananka's 

 child varies according to which of the two women he 

 marries, because the section names have succession in a 

 prescribed rotation through the women, as stated in the 

 explanation of Table I, p. 68. This is the law of the nor- 

 thern faction of the Arranda. 



Among the southern faction, as we have seen above, it 

 is necessary, in "alternative" marriages, according to "Mr. 

 Schulze's method," that the child shall take the section 

 Dame of its mother's mother as well as that of its father's 

 lather, as illustrated in the marriages Nos. 1 to 7 in Table 

 B. This law is in accord with that of the Kamilaroi, and 

 therefore we are justified in saying that the child of an 

 "alternative" wife likewise obtains its section name 

 through the mother. 



Spencer and Gillen state that "in the Arunta (Arranda) 

 and in all the tribes from there to the Gulf of Carpentaria 

 descent is counted in the paternal line." 1 By means of 

 thoroughly reliable correspondents, I have been working 

 the Arranda, Warramonga, Chingalee, Binbingha, Wombaia, 

 Warkaia and other tribes since 1895, and have published 

 the results of my labours at various times from 1898 until 

 now. I am satisfied that in all the tribes mentioned 

 descent is counted through the women and not the men. 



Spencer and Gillen in speaking of what I have dis- 

 tinguished as "alternative" marriages among other tribes 



1 Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 74. 



