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are related as brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law respectively to the 

 people of Moiety B, and conversely. In genera], the progeny, 

 boys and girls alike, take the totem of their male parent. 



Marriage between persons of the same totem is forbidden, if 

 they belong to families residing in neighbouring hunting grounds, 

 but where the parties to the union come from remote districts, 

 and therefore cannot be any blood connection, I have observed 

 individuals of the same totem living as man and wife. Mr. T. M. 

 Sutton, in speaking of the Adjadurah tribe in 1887, refers to a 

 man who was a ghardie (emu), being married to a ghardie woman. 1 



The following are a few of the principal tribes inhabiting the 

 country about Elsey Creek, Katherine and Roper Rivers, reach- 

 ing northerly to Wilton and Goyder Rivers, and onward to Glyde's 

 Inlet on the north coast of Arnheim's land, Northern Territory. 

 Their names are the Yungmunnee, Charmong, Mungerry, Yookull, 

 Hongalla, and Koorungo. They have an organisation containing 

 eight sections, similar to those given in Table No. 3, but bearing 

 a nomenclature more or less different. These eight sections, how 

 they intermarry, and the names of the resulting offspring is repre- 

 sented in tabular form hereunder :— 







Table No 



5. 





Phratry 



Father. 



Mother. 



Son. 



Daughter. 





'Eemitch 



Inkagalla 



Uwallaree 



Imballaree 





Uwannee 



Imbawalla 



Uwungaree 



Imbongaree 



A - 













Unmarra 



Imballaree 



Urwalla 



Imbawalla 





Tabachin 



Imbongaree 



Yungalla 



Inkagalla 





Yungalla 



Immadenna 



Tabachin 



Tabadenna 



B - 



Urwalla 



Imbannee 



Unmarra 



Inganmarra 



Uwungaree 



Tabadenna 



Unwannee 



Imbannee 





Uwallaree 



Inganmarra 



Eemitch 



Immadenna 



These are the divisions of the Yungmunnee tribe about Elsey 

 Creek, and their equivalence to those of the Wombya is as follows: 

 Eemitch is equal to Choolum, Uwannee to Cheenum, Unmarra to 



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