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mation, which has never before been published. Like their 
Southern neighbours, their women can be classified into 
two cycles of four sections each, making eight divisions in 
all. Upto the present, [have not been able to discover 
feminine forms of the section names. 
I am informed that all the tribes from Katherine River 
to Port Darwin, have the same sociology as the Chau-an. 
The names of the eight sections are different from those 
at the Katherine, but the principle is just the same. 
Table IV. 
Cycle. Mother. Father. Children. 
Kangala Plienban Paralee 
re Watchban Aratchban Pongaree 
| Paralee Kamaranban Watchban 
| Pongaree Wamood Kangala 
( Plienban Kangala Wamood 
| Aratchban Watchban Kamaranban 
B- : . 
Wamood Pongaree Aratchban 
| Kamaranban Paralee Plienban 
In studying the upper half of the above table, or cycle 
A, we see that the women in the “‘ mother ”’ and “‘ children ”’ 
columns reproduce each other in an established order, and 
this series is continaully repeated. Kangala has a Paralee 
daughter, who has a Watchban daughter, who has a 
Pongaree daughter, whose daughter reverts to the original 
Kangala section. A similar invariable order of succession 
exists among the women of Cycle B. As regards the 
marriages of the sections, a man of the Plienban section 
can marry a Kangala, as his direct or tabular wife, which 
can be called wife No. 1, or he can espouse Watchban as 
No. 2, or Aratchban as No. 3, or Plienban as a No. 4 wife. 
And as regards the progeny, if Plienban marries Kangala 
his children will be Paralee, who may be called his No. 1 
family. If he takes a Watchban as his wife, his children 
