296 K. H. MATHEWS. 



marrying divisions are Maturri and Kirraroo, extending 

 from Port Lincoln to Lake Eyre basin, in Soutli Australia. 

 In describing the marriage laws of the Parnkalla nation in 

 1900, I showed that " a man marries the daughter of his 

 father's father's sister's son." 1 In the same year (1900), I 

 described the limits of the country occupied by the Parn- 

 kalla nation, and supplied a map, which no previous author 

 had attempted, in which the boundaries were accurately 

 delineated. 2 Likewise in the same year, I described the 

 initiation ceremonies of the Parnkalla nation, including 

 the whole of Lake Eyre basin. 5 It must be stated that 

 Rev. C. W. Schiirmann was the first to report the names 

 of the two phratries of the Parnkalla tribe. 4 He also 

 described the ceremonies of circumcision and subincision. 



Kuttyaga, as the reader will remember, is one of the clan 

 names among the tribes north of the dividing range on the 

 Wimmera River and tributaries, and means the white crest- 

 less cockatoo. Gurogity is the name of the same bird 

 among the coast tribes. Kirtok is the equivalent of Dyallan, 

 also a Wimmera clan, both words meaning the whip-snake, 

 in their respective languages. It appears therefore that 

 Kuttyaga and Kirtok have developed into the status of 

 phratries. 



When Mr. James Dawson was writing his book on the 

 "Australian Aborigines of the Western Districts of Victoria" 

 in 1881, at pp. 26-28, he mentions certain divisions of the 

 aborigines who can intermarry. He says, " Kuurokeetch 

 (my Gurogity), and Karkpoerapp (my Kurtpirrap), are 



1 " Marriage and Descent among the Australian Aborigines/' Journ. 

 Boy. Soc, N.S.W., Vol. xxxiv., p. 126. 



8 " Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines," Proc. Amer. Philos. 

 Soc., Philadelphia, Vol. xxxix., pp. 78-93, with map. 



3 See my "Phallic Rites and Initiation Ceremonies of the South Aus- 

 tralian Aborigines," op. cit., Vol. xxxix., pp. 622-638. 



4 "Aboriginal Tribes of Port Lincoln, South Australia," (Adelaide, 

 1846), p. 9 ; and " Native Tribes of South Australia," (Adelaide 1879), 

 p. 222. 



