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Another variation in the intermarriages of the sections 

 allows the Ippai of our example to wed a Kubbitha or a 

 Butha, corresponding to the marriage of Ohoolum with 

 Nooralum and Neenum in the Wombaia tribe (Table IV.). 

 In other words, a man of any given section can marry into 

 one or otlier of the three remaining divisions or else into 

 his own. It is needless to add that these facts altogether 

 disprove the existence of exogamy in the Wongaibon tribe. 



Reference to Table VI. shows us that the children follow 

 the phratry or cycle of their mother, but they do not bear 

 the name of her section, but that of the supplementary 

 one, because the women of a cycle reproduce each other 

 in continuous alternation. That is, the section name is 

 invariably determined through the women. The totems 

 remain constantly in the same cycle as the women and are 

 accordingly transmitted from the mother to her progeny. 

 Although the totems, as well as the sections and phratries, 

 are perpetuated through the women, this does not constitute 

 exogamy. We have already shown that an Ippai, for 

 example, can marry into either cycle of women, and conse- 

 quently a totem of either cycle. 



Again, a Guaigullimba mother produces Guaigullimba 

 children, who also take their mother's "shade." The castes 

 of "blood" and " shade " are not necessarily coincident 

 with the other divisions, but apply to any section accord- 

 ing to pedigree. In short, they divide the people of every 

 section into two sorts, and are used in tracing out the 

 betrothals and who shall marry whom. There are for 

 example, two sorts of Ippais. If the one who married 

 Matha as already stated, was a Guaigullimba the Ippai 

 who espoused Ippatha would be a Guaimundhun, analog- 

 ously to the subdivisions of the Ohoolum section in the 

 Wombaia tribe. An Ippai who could take a Kubbitha for 

 a wife would be a different "blood " from the one who could 

 marry a Butha. 



