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that the most general custom was to take a " 1st " and 

 44 2nd " wife from the same cycle of women. Instances of 

 polygamy were found, however, in which the wives were 

 from both cycles in accordance with Tables IV. and V. 



Although there are four sorts of men in each section — 

 lour Ohoolums for example in that division — they practically 

 resolve themselves into two, namely, those who marry 

 women of the Z Cycle and those who obtain their wives 

 from the Y Cycle (see Table I.). This really amounts to a 

 partition of the Choolum section into two parts instead of 

 four. Again looking at Table I., we observe that Choolum 

 and Cheenum take two of their possible wives, who are at 

 the same time the two most usual, from Cycle Z and the 

 other two from Cycle Y. The remaining two sections of 

 men, Jamerum and Yacomary, do the same. As regards 

 the succession of the totems, this matter has been concisely 

 described in my paper. 1 In that article I stated that 44 the 

 partition of a tribe into two exogamous portions would be 

 impossible." 



Before quitting the eight-section system, it will be Well 

 to state that everything which has been said in the pre- 

 ceding pages against the existence of exogamy, refers 

 equally to the Binbingha, Chingalee, Yungmunni, Warra- 

 monga, and Arunta tribes. What I have stated is likewise 

 applicable to all the native tribes on the Victoria river, as 

 well as to those on Hall's Creek and surrounding country 

 in the State of Western Australia. There is an indubitable 

 absence of exogamy throughout them all. 



Sociology of the Wongaibon Tribes. 

 The territory of the Wongaibon extends approximately 

 from about Booligal up the Lachlan river to Euabalong, 

 thence to Nyngan, Cobar, Paddington and Ivanhoe. Their 



1 "Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of Queensland," Proc. 

 Hoy. Geog. Soc. (Queensland), xx., pp. 72- 75. 



