MARRIAGE AND DESCENT AMONG AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 



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Infanticide, abortion, and cannibalism are largely practised 

 among all the tribes on the Peninsula in those districts where the 

 natives are still in a comparatively wild state. The bones of 

 adult victims, rolled in strips of the bark of the tea-tree, and 

 fastened with string passed around, are frequently carried by the 

 relatives of the deceased for considerable periods. 



The same divisional system, but with different names for the 

 sections, extends from Cape York southerly till it adjoins the 

 Koonjan and other tribes, who use the four divisions reported by 

 me in Table No. 3, contained in a paper 1 contributed to this 

 Society in 1899. The equivalence of the four sections of the 

 Koonjan, Warkeemon, Goothanto, Mykoolon and Kogai com- 

 munities may be tabulated as follows : — 



Table No. 7. 



Koonjan 

 Community. 



Warkeemon 

 Community. 



Karpungie 

 Cheek ungie 

 Kellungie 

 Koopungie 



Goothanto 

 Community. 



Mykoolon Kogai. 

 Community. Community. 



1. Ajeereena 



2. Arenynung 



3. Perrynung 



4. Mahngale 



Erainyer 

 Arara 

 Loora 

 Awonger 



Jimalingo 

 Bathingo 

 Maringo 

 Yowingo 



Woongo 

 Koobaroo 

 Bunburri 

 Koorgilla 



Joura. Eoy. Soc, N.S.W., xxxiii., pp. 108 - 111. 



