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Before a union can take place under the ' regular ' law, or 

 under the 'alternative' regulations, or under those which 

 I have called 'rare,' the genealogy of the contracting parties 

 is subjected to the test which I shall now endeavour to 

 illustrate. 



In examining Table No. I. it is found that the children 

 of a brother and those of a sister belong to different phratries 

 sections and totems. Let us assume that Ippai Al bandi- 

 coot, marries Kubbitha iguana ; then his sons and daughters 

 will be Mumbun and Mumbunga — Murris and Mathas — 

 iguanas. His sister, Ippatha Bl, will marry, say, Kubbi, 

 padamellin, and her children will be Ngurrawun and Ngurra- 

 wunga — Kumbos and Buthas — bandicoots. As the children 

 take their mother's totem, the padamellin of her husband 

 is not inherited by Ippatha's children. 



Diagram of Genealogies. 



Ippai Al- 



Murri A- 

 Ippai E- 



Brother and Sister 



-Matha A 



Ippatha Bl 

 ■Butha B 



■Kubbi O - -Ippatha D 



Ippatha E Kubbitha Ippai D 



Let us call the Murris and Mathas of the last example A, 

 and the Kumbos and Buthas B. According to Table No. 1, 

 Murri marries Butha, but a Murri A cannot marry a 

 Butha B. She is mia to him, and he is mia to her. By 

 continuing the genealogy for another generation, Mum's 

 sister, Matha A, iguana, marries some other Kumbo and 

 has a son, Kubbi C. Butha B, bandicoot, marries another 

 Murri, and has a daughter, Ippatha D. Then Kubbi can 

 marry Ippatha D, and by an interchange of sisters, Ippai D 

 can marry Kubbitha C. He is mumma to her and she to 

 him. They are what we call second cousins, being a 

 brother's daughter's child and a sister's daughter's child. 

 If we had taken a brother's son's child and a sister's son's 



