NOTES ON SOME NATIVE TRIBES OF AUSTRALIA. 99 
The Kubbundyerra of our example in Table 2 had a 
Ngumburi as her No. 1 father, or an Ibburi as her No, 2 
father. She might instead have had a Murruri or a Kubburi 
as her No. 3 or No. 4 father respectively, as follows :— 
Table III. 
Kubburi + + Murruri + Murrundyerra + Kubbundyerra 
\ fe 
/ \ 
Kubbund a) me Kubbundyerra + + Kubburi Murrund yerra + 4+ Murruri 
Murruri No.3-+ marries Murrundyerrat . +Ngummundyerra 
Murruri No. 4+ - - - - - - - - marries Kubbundyerra + + Ibbundyerra 
Kubbundyerra is shown as the same individual for the 
sake of simplicity, but the woman in Table 2 might be a 
different Kubbundyerra to the one in Table 3. The Kub- 
bundyerra of our examples represents the section rather 
than the individual. This Kubbundyerra might have had a 
husband from any one of four sections. Perhaps her 
husband was Ibburi as in Table 1, or Kubburi, or Ngumburi, 
or Murruri, but it makes no difference to her progeny which 
of the four men she was mated with—her children are 
Murruri and Murrundyerra just the same. Owing, how- 
ever, to the above mentioned variations in her possible 
husbands and her possible fathers, it is evident that there 
could be four sorts or degrees of Murruris, depending upon 
their mother’s pedigree as well as upon her marriage. 
These four sorts of men are shown as Murruri Nos. 1, 2, 3 
and 4 in the tables. It will be observed, however, that 
the wife of each of the four men will have nominally the 
same relationship to him, but through different channels. 
The human subject, animals, plants, inanimate objects, 
the elements, the heavenly bodies—everything on the earth 
or above it—are divided into Kilpungurra and Mukungurra, 
into Muggulu and Ngipuru, and into Butt and Branch 
shades. The normal and general practice is for one of 
these pairs of divisions to intermarry with each other. A 
