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Beside the pliratries, sections and totemic groups above 

 illustrated, the whole community is further divided into 

 what may, for convenience of reference, be called 'castes.' 

 These castes regulate the camping or resting places of the 

 people under the shades of large trees in the vicinity of 

 water or elsewhere. The shadow thrown by the butt and 

 lower portion of a tree is called ' nhurrai '; that cast by 

 the middle portion of the tree is 'wau-gue'; whilst the 

 shade of the top of the tree, or outer margin of the shadow, 

 is t winggu.' 



Again, the men, women and children, whose prescribed 

 sitting places are in the butt and the middle shades of the 

 tree are called ' guai'mundhan,' or sluggish blood, whilst 

 those who sit in the top or outside shade are designated 

 'guaigulir,' or active blood. This further bisection of the 

 community into Guaimundhun and Guaigulir, which may 

 be referred to as 'blood' divisions, has happened so long 

 ago that the natives have no explanation regarding it. The 

 Guaigulir people — those who occupy the ' winggu' or outer 

 margin of the shade — are supposed to keep a strict watch 

 for any game which may appear in sight, the approach of 

 friends or enemies, or anything which may require vigilance 

 in a native camp. 



Each phratry, and consequently every section and every 

 totemic group, contains men, women and children belong- 

 ing to the Guaimundhun and Guaigulir bloods, with their 

 respective shades. We have just seen that the Guaimun- 

 dhun people are subdivided into nhurrai and waugue, the 

 butt and the middle shades, whilst the Guaigulir folk are 

 intact in the winggu or distal shade. The additional regu- 

 lations which are brought into the laws of intermarriage 

 by the 'blood ' and the 'shade' divisions are as follow : — 



A Guaimundhun man of the butt shade marries a Guai- 

 gulir woman. He can also marry certain of the Guaimun- 



N— Oct. 5, 1904. 



