220 K. H. MATHEWS. 



On the Lennard and Lower Fitzroy Rivers, on Jurgurra Creek, 

 and thence along the coast to Broome, Condon and Roebourne 

 are a number of tribes possessing an organisation with the follow- 

 ing four section names: — 



Table No. 2. 

 Phatry. Father. Mother. Offspring. 



. j Kaiamba Parajerri Parungo 



B. 



Panaka Parungo Parajerri 



( Parajerri Kaiamba Panaka 



( Parungo Panaka Kaiamba 



Among the totems of Kaiamba and Panaka are the opossum 

 and bush-rat, whilst Parajerri and Parungo have the storm-bird 

 and shark. 



A Parajerri woman is the regularly appointed spouse of Kaiamba 

 but he can occasionally marry a Parungo belonging to a distant 

 tribe where there is no blood relationship. Panaka can, under 

 like circumstances, take a Parajerri as his conjugal mate, although 

 Parungo is his regular wife. The same rule applies to the men 

 of the two sections in Phratry B. 



It is important as well as interesting to show the equivalence 

 of the four sectional divisions in Table No. 2 to the eight divisions 

 in Table No. 1. The section name Kaiamba is equivalent to the 

 two sections Changura and Chauan in Table No. 1 ; Panaka to 

 Chagara and Cham bin; Parajerri to Chungala and Chuara; and 

 Parungo corresponds to Chauarding and Chabalyi. 



Circumcision and cutting open the male urethra are in vogue 

 in all the tribes treated of in this paper At their ceremonial and 

 magical dances they use the mirralu, a flat thin board varying in 

 length from about four feet to twelve feet or more, from three to 

 six inches wide, and ornamented by carving on both sides. 



Vocabulary. 



The following is a short vocabulary of the Kisha dialect, Hall's 

 Creek, Western Australia. The English words are in the same 

 order as those in Mr. E. M. Curr's vocabularies, for the purpose 

 of facilitating comparison. 



