292 R. H. MATHEWS. 



the other. Wiirt-Pattyangal has some reciprocity with 

 Wartwurt and Durrimurak ; Nyaui with Burt-Murnya ; 

 Burt-Wirrimal with Kuttyaga. Muiwillak has affinities 

 with Wartwurt, Dyalup with Wuran. Dyallan and Patty a- 

 ngal are related to each other. 



The divisions have not reached the stage of development 

 which would enable one clan to marry only into another 

 specified clan, but there is a tendency in that direction. 

 For example, marriages of common occurrence are Wuran 

 with Kuttyaga ; Pattyangal with Wartwurt ; Dyalup with 

 Dyallan. Muiwillak is also a favourite clan when betrothals 

 are being arranged by the old men. 



In order to further emphasize or distinguish the different 

 divisions, the pbratries and clans have their own style of 

 painting their bodies and dressing their hair. A very old 

 Gurogity blackfellow on the Wimmera River assured me, 

 some years ago, that he could discern a Gamaty man by 

 his walk. He also gave me to understand that the speech 

 of each clan was slightly divergent. The Wartwurt clan 

 spoke Wereka-tyalli; Muiwillak and Wiirt-Pattyangal spoke 

 Bewa-tyalli ; Durrimurak and AVanguguliak spoke Yerra- 

 tyalli. He also mentioned Yagwa-tyalli ; Yardwa-tyalli, 

 Buiba-tyalli and some others, but could not connect them 

 with any specific clan. 



Each of the dialects just mentioned are named from their 

 negative adverbs. Werreka, bewa, yerra, yagwa, yardwa, 

 buiba, all mean "No." They are all sister tongues of the 

 Tyat-tyalli, a grammar and vocabulary of which I published 

 in 1902, 1 and together constitute one great language over 

 the whole territory referred to in my Dolgarrity Ceremony 

 of Initiation in later pages. 



1 " The Aboriginal Languages of Victoria," Journ. Roy. Soc, N.S.W., 

 xxxvi., pp. 71 - 106. 



