132 K. H. MATHEWS. 



Batavia River, whose organisation is after the Kamilaroi type, 

 possessing four sections, with rules of marriage and descent as in 

 the following table — the males and females using the same names 

 for their respective divisions. The dialects spoken from the 

 Jardine to the Batavia River and Pioneer Downs, or farther south, 

 are similar in many respects. My best thanks are due to the 

 Rev. N. Hey, of Mapoon, and other gentlemen on the Peninsula, 

 for assisting me whilst engaged in obtaining the following inform- 

 ation. 



Table No. 6. 

 Phratry. Father. Mother. Offspring. 



Lankenamee Pakwickee Pamarung 



Jamakunda 



Namegooree Pamarung Pakwickee 



T ^ ( Pakwickee Lankenamee Namegooree 



Kamanutta < -^ XT T , 



(Pamarung JNamegooree Lankenamee 



The pair of sections forming the phratry Jamakunda invariably 

 marry the Kamanutta pair, but the rules of intermarriage of the 

 individual sections constituting the phratries vary in different 

 parts of the tribal territory. For example, in some districts instead 

 of the rules of marriage following the. order laid down in Table 

 No. 6, a Lankenamee, male, provided there is no blood relationship, 

 may marry a Pamarung, female, and vice versa. The descent of 

 the offspring is not disturbed by this irregularity — the children 

 of a Pakwickee mother being always Pamarung, irrespectively of' 

 the section name of her husband. These rules apply, mutatis 

 mutandis, to all the other sections. 



Athough marriages are generally regulated by the order of 

 names in Table No. 6, and the rules given in the last paragraph, 

 there are, further, what I have designated "family, or sectional" 

 regulations, under which a man may, in certain cases only, take 

 a wife bearing his own section name, but of a different totemic 

 nomenclature. For example, a Lankenamee shark, belonging to 

 a distant lineage, might be permitted to take as his wife a Lan- 

 kenamee grasshopper. 



