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Table No. 3 — continued. 

 Phratry. Father. Mother. Son. Daughter. 



Chingulum Noolum Yacomary Yacomareenya 



Chooralum Neenum Jamerum Neomarum 



B. 



Bungarin Yacomareenya Cheenum Neenum 

 I Paly arm Neomarum Choolum Noolum 



A glance at the foregoing three tables shows that each system 

 is exactly alike as regards the partition of the community into 

 the phratries A and B. It will also be observed that each phratry 

 is composed of certain aggregates of women, who have perpetual 

 succession among themselves. We will take an example from the 

 column headed " mother " in phratry A in each table. In Table 

 No. 1, Matturrin produces Matturrin from one generation to 

 another. In Table No. 2, Butha produces Ippatha, and in the 

 next generation Ippatha is the mother of Butha, and these sections 

 reproduce each other in continuous alternation. In Table No. 3 

 we see that Ningulum has a daughter Palyareenya ; Palyareenya 

 produces Nooralum ; Nooralum is the mother of Bungareenya; 

 Bungareenya has a daughter Ningulum, and this series is con- 

 tinually repeated in the same order. If the examples had been 

 taken from phratry B, similar results would have been obtained. 

 The brothers of the girls, in every case, belong to the same phratry 

 and section as their sisters. 



We have therefore seen that the women never pass out of the 

 phratry to which they belong, and that where it consists of more 

 than one denomination, they pass successively through each of the 

 sections of which it is composed, in the same number of generations. 

 It is also apparent that the daughters of each phratry become the 

 wives of the men born in the opposite one. For example, in 

 Table No. 3, the women of phratry A are the mothers of sons and 

 daughters belonging to the same phratry as themselves ; and their 

 boys on reaching manhood must take their wives from phratry B. 

 In a similar manner the daughters of the women of phratry A 

 must obtain their husbands from among the sons of the women in 

 phratry B. For the reasons above stated, I have found it con- 



