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demonstrated that this totem would not only be liable to 

 be disseminated through the children of any or all the 

 sections in phratry A, Table II., but in a few generations 

 it could be similarly distributed to the children of some or 

 all the sections in phratry B. Therefore there could not 

 be any totemic partition of the tribe into two phratries or 

 moieties ; or in other words there would be no exogamy. 



Furthermore, if we assume that succession of the totems 

 is through the women and work out an example from Table 

 II., we shall discover that half the women of each phratry 

 would respectively confer their totems on half the women 

 of the other. All the totems would thus be scattered 

 through both, the phratries, 1 rendering exogamy impossible. 

 It appears then that whether we endeavour to trace the 

 totems according to the fathers or the mothers, the result 

 is practically the same. 



The section names of the men follow a different order to 

 those of the women — they see-saw from father to son in 

 alternate generations. Thus Ohoolum has a son Palyarin, 

 and in the next generation Palyarin has a son Ohoolum, 

 and so on for all the other sections. In 1900 I published a 

 table suggesting how descent might be counted through 

 the men, of which the following is a copy. 



TABLE III. 



Wife. Son. Daughter. 



Ningulum Palyarin Palyareenya 



Neomarum Choolum Noolum 



Nooralum Bungarin Bungareenya 



Yacomareenya Chenum Neenuui 



Phatry. Husband. 



/ Choolum 



. J Palyarin 



Cheenum 



Bungfarin 



B 



{Jamerum Palyareenya Chooralum 



Chooralum Neenum Jamerum 



Yacomary Bungareenya Chingulum 



Chingulum Noolum Yacomary 



Nooralum 

 Neomarum 

 Ningulum 

 Yacomareenya 



1 This statement applies only to Table II. If the totems descended 

 through the women as arranged in Table I., they would remain con- 

 stantly in the same cycle, similarly to the totems of the Wongaibon and 

 Barkunjee, reported in later pages. 



