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and Kubbi marry all the women of a phratry in the 

 Wongaibon tribe, Table VI-. 



But Ohoolum and Oheenum, the equivalent of Murri, can 

 also marry Noolum and Neenum the equivalent of Matha. 

 Jamerum and Yacomary, the equivalent of Kubbi, can 

 marry Yacomareenya and Neomarum the equivalent of 

 Kubbitha. That is, Ohoolum, Oheenum, Jamerum and 

 Yacomary, collectively, can marry all the women in phratry 

 B, the same as Murri and Kubbi can marry all the women 

 of the other phratry in the Wongaibon. Examination of 

 Table I. will show that Ohoolum, Oheenum, Jamerum 

 aud Yacomary, taken in the aggregate, can not only 

 marry all the women in either phratry, but they can inter- 

 marry with the whole eight sections of the Wombaia com- 

 munity, Table I., the same as Murri and Kubbi can marry 

 into all the four sections of the Wongaibon. 



The four preceding paragraphs may be recapitulated as 

 follows : In the Barkunjee community, a single division, 

 Mukkungurra, represents phratry A. In the Wongaibon 

 tribe, two divisions, Murri and Kubbi constitute phratry A. 

 Among the Wombaia people the four divisions Ohoolum, 

 Clieenum, Jamerum and Yacomary form phratry A. My 

 examples have all been from one phratry because the same 

 rules apply to both. In all these tribes the women are 

 divided into two primary cycles, groups, phratries, moieties, 

 classes, or whatever name we may employ to distinguish 

 the divisions. It is also manifest that the name of the 

 cycle or phratry to which the progeny belongs is in all 

 cases established through the women, altogether irrespec- 

 tively of the divisional name of the father. 



Perhaps I should state here that in 1898 I described the 

 sociology of the Dippil and other tribes 1 spread over the 

 region lying between the northern boundary of New South 



1 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, Phila., xxxvn., pp. 327 - 336, with maps. 



