AUSTKALIAN DIVISIONAL SYSTEMS. 



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and this is supported by Mr. Woods' statement already quoted. 

 As there is a difference of opinion in regard to the line of descent 

 among the Alice Springs tribes, I intend making further enquiries 

 and will also endeavour to obtain comprehensive particulars 

 respecting the totems. For the present, therefore, a list of totems 

 already collected will be omitted. 



My correspondent afterwards made his way northwards, and 

 before leaving the Hart's Eanges I gave him such particulars of 

 the divisions of the Warramonga tribes as I could obtain from 

 Mr. A. M. Giles' statements published by Mr. A. W. Howitt, 1 

 and asked him, if he had the opportunity, to make certain further 

 enquiries which I indicated. He met some of these blacks and 

 gathered particulars from which I am able to tabulate eight 

 divisions in the following order, illustrating the rules of marriage 

 and descent: 





Husband 



Wife 



Sons 



Daughters 



< 1 



f Kabatjee 

 Opalla 



Nakamarra 



Ungary 



Namatjillee 



Namatjillee 



' Ampatjona 



Tampatjona 



P 1 



o 



Apungata 



Tampatjona 



Aponunga 



Naponunga 



c 1 



> Tungulli 



Naponunga 



Akamarra 



Nakamarra 



PL 



.Akamarra 



Kabatjeen 



Opalla 



Narulla 



Ungary 



Narulla 



Apungata 



Napungata 



3 " 

 O 



j Ampatjona 



Napungata 



Tungulli 



Nungulli 



o 



1 Aponunga 



Nungulli 



Kabatjee 



Kabatjeen 



The foregoing table shows that the community is segregated 

 into two groups, A and B, one of which intermarries with the 

 other ; and each of these is again subdivided into four sections, 

 the names of which are given. The sons of the women of group A 

 marry the daughters of the women of group B, and vice versa, 

 therefore the women of one group are the mothers of the men of 

 the other. 



Each group has perpetual succession through the women — the 

 daughters belonging to the same group as their mothers, but to a 



1 Journ. Antbrop. Inst., xin., 44. 



