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Then the totems of each phratry are apportioned among 

 the clans of which it is composed, some clans possessing a 

 certain aggregate of totems and some another, as illus- 

 trated in the lists farther on. 



Again, every clan has its own spirit-land, called mi'-yur* 

 a native word signifying " home" or final resting place, to 

 which the shades of all its members depart after death. 

 The names of the miyurs are in all cases identical with the 

 names of the clans. These miyurs are located in certain 

 fixed directions from the territory of the tribe, some being 

 situated toward one point of the compass and some another. 

 Every man knows the direction of all the miyurs of his 

 tribe in addition to his own. 



The following are the names of the " clans " into which 

 the phratry Gurogity is subdivided, together with the 

 directions of the miyurs as pointed out to me by some old 

 aborigines, and which I then observed with a compass : — ■ 

 Dyalup, the miyur of which bears W. 5° S. Burt murnya, 

 which has the same amplitude as Dyalup. Nyaui, E. 10° N. 

 Kuttyaga, the same direction as Nyaui. Burt Wirrimul 

 has a miyur bearing W. 25° S. Wartwurt bears N. 25° W. 

 Wurt-pattyangal, E. 15° S. 



The totems of these clans will now be given, following 

 the same order as the names in the last paragraph. First, 

 then, are the totems allotted to Dyalup : — grey emu, por- 

 cupine, curlew, white cockatoo (ngaiuk), wijuggla, wood 

 duck, mallee-lizard (yurkun), stinking turtle (widclyeruk), 

 flying squirrel, ring-tail opossum, bronze-wing pigeon. 



Burt Murnya, a yam, has the plain-turkey, native cat, 

 mopoke, dyim-dyim owl, mallee-hen, rosella parrot, pee wee, 

 all yams. 



z I first drew attention to these miyurs in my "Native Tribes of Vic- 

 toria, etc.," (read March 4, 1901), Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, Philadelphia, 

 Vol. xliii., p. 69. 



