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R. H. MATHEWS. 



I was much interested in the paper communicated by Mr. 

 Schulze, and during 1895 I was enabled to make independent 

 enquiries through Mr. Jackson, a friend who went out to the mica 

 and ruby fields in the Hart's ranges, and the gold mines about 

 Arltunga, or Paddy's Waterhole, as it is commonly called. From 

 information then obtained, I was enabled to tabulate the divisions 

 as under, showing two intermarrying groups, A and B : — 



Husband 



Bultara 



Pungata 



O ) 



u Parulla 



O 



VNgala 



Wife 

 Koomara 

 Mbutjana 



Panimgka 

 Knurraia 



Children 

 Panungka or Knurraia 

 Knurraia or Panungka 



Koomara or Mbutjana 

 Mbutjana or Koomara 



PQ 



o 



i- 



O 



Koomara 

 Mbutjana 



Panungka 

 Knurraia 



Bultara 

 Pungata 



Parulla 

 Ngala 



Parulla or Ngala 

 Ngala or Parulla 



Bultara or Pungata 

 Pungata or Bultara 



My correspondent confirms Mr. Schulze's statement regarding 

 the intermarriage of the men of a pair of complementary sections 

 with the women of another pair. Thus, Bultara can marry a 

 woman from either the Koomara or Mbutjana sections, and 

 Pungata can marry into either of the same sections that Bultara 

 can. If Bultara marry a Koomara woman, the children will be 

 Panungka, but if he select an Mbutjana wife, the children will be 

 Knurraia. It appears, therefore, that the children of each of 

 these men may be either Panungka or Knurraia, which is regulated 

 by the section to which the mother belongs. Marriage and descent 

 in the other pairs of sections will follow the same rules, mutatis 

 mutandis, as examplified in the table. 



It will be seen by the above table that my arrangement of the 

 divisional names differs from that of Mr. Schulze. He also states 

 that the children have paternal descent, but Mr. Jackson represents 

 that they belong to their mother's group, as shown in the table, 



