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home to the camp, their heads are turned towards their 

 respective miyurs. 



A hunter carries weapons made from the wood of each 

 phratry. If he throws at a Gamaty animal, he uses a 

 Gurogity missile, but Gurogity game are killed with Gamaty 

 weapons. If a Gurogity animal be the subject of pursuit, 

 and a Gamaty spear has been hurled at it with good aim, 

 without effect, then the hunter concludes either that the 

 game in question was partly or wholly a Gamaty, or that 

 there has been some mistake about the wood of which the 

 spear was manufactured. Forest kangaroos are usually 

 Gamaty but should one of them be chased by dogs and 

 escape from them, then that particular animal would be 

 considered Gurogity. 



In the south-western portion of Victoria, along the coast 

 from the Glenelg River to Geelong, and reaching inland 

 approximately to the main dividing range, 1 we discover 

 that the phratry names, with their feminine equivalents, 

 are slightly different from those already described, as shown 

 in the following synopsis. The offspring take the phratry, 

 clan and totem of their mother. 



Gurogity Kappatyar Kappaty Kappatyar 

 Kappaty Gurogityar Gurogity Gurogityar 



Everything in the universe is divided between these two 

 phra tries. Among the totems of the Gurogity are included 

 the following; Flying squirrel, small squirrel, opossum, 

 pelican, plain turkey, eaglehawk, kurogity (white crestless 

 cockatoo), plover, white cockatoo (ngaiuk), crane, black 

 duck, small night-jar, ironbark, oak, bloodwood, broom, 

 red-gum tree, peppermint tree, white-gum tree, red bull- 

 dog ant, tiger-snake. 



1 For the language of these people, see my " Native Tribes of Victoria/* 

 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, Vol. xliii., pp. 54 - 70 ; also my "Language of 

 the Bungandity Tribe, South Australia," Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., VoL 

 xxxvii., pp. 59 - 74. 



