70 R. H. MATHEWS. 



Muthury and Cariero, and states that they intermarried with 

 each other. 1 



Still farther inland, round the head of Spencer's Gulf, and down 

 the eastern side of it as far as Crystal Brook, as well as in the 

 Flinders Ranges, which extend from there to the east of Lake 

 Torrens, Mr. Noble reports the existence of the same two divisions 

 which he calls Muttay and Arriee. 2 Both Mr. Bryant and Mr. 

 Noble call these divisions "clans," — which is by the way quite as 

 suitable a term as "classes," although neither of these names are 

 very appropriate. 



Mr. Samuel Gason, in describing the customs of the Dieyerie 

 tribes at Lake Eyre, states that they were organised into inter- 

 marrying divisions, bearing the names of animals. 3 In 1882, Mr. 

 A. W. tfowitt, from information supplied by the Rev. H. Vogel- 

 sang, a missionary among the tribes referred to, reported that 

 their divisions were Mattiri and Karraru, being the same names 

 as those stated by the Rev. 0. W. Schiirmann at Port Lincoln. 

 Dr. E. 0. Stirling in 1896, 4 and Professor W. B. Spencer in 1897, 5 

 mentioned these divisions in the same district. 



It will be seen that I have traced the two divisions, Mattiri 

 and Karraru, through a wide extent of territory, reaching from 

 Port Lincoln, via Port Augusta and Farina, to somewhere about 

 Oodnadatta, a distance of over seven hundred miles. From the 

 latter place northerly to the neighbourhood of the James Ranges 

 the tribes are divided into four sections ; and thence to the Gulf 

 of Carpentaria they are divided into eight sections, the particulars 

 of whose organisation I shall now endeavour to explain. 



In 1875, Mr. Christopher Giles, 6 who was a station master at 

 Charlotte Waters telegraph station, reported that the tribes in 

 that neighbourhood, who spoke the Arrinda language, were divided 



1 Folklore, Manners, &c. of S. A. Aborigines, p. 103. 2 ibid., p. 64. 



3 The Dieyerie Tribe of Australian Aborigines, (1874), p. 13. 



4 Horn Exped. Central Australia, Part iv., p. 46. 



5 The Engwurra Ceremony — Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, N.S., x., 18. 



6 Folklore, Manners, &c. of S. A. Aborigines, pp. 82 — 91. 



