84 R. H. MATHEWS. 



children is uterine, as exemplified in the following table. He 

 spoke from memory of what the Palmer natives had told him, 

 and I have not yet had an opportunity of checking his statement. 



Husband 



Wife 



Offspring 



Jury 



Barry 



Ararey 



Mungilly 



Ararey 



Barry 



Ararey 



Mungilly 



Jury 



Barry 



Jury 



Mungilly 



In 1897 Dr. Roth found that the same divisions which had 

 been reported by previous writers on the Maranoa, at Mackay, 

 and the other places referred to also obtained on the Hamilton, 

 Georgina and neighbouring streams. Dr. Roth also confirmed the 

 sectional names discovered by Mr. Palmer among the Mycoolon 

 and Myappe tribes ; and further, he ascertained the equivalence 

 of the sections to those of the tribes about Hughenden and Boulia. 

 For example he states that Bathingo corresponds to Coobaroo, 

 Jimmalingo 1 to Woongo, Yowingo to Kurgielah, and Marringo to 

 Bunbury. He also reports that the Mycoolon divisional names 

 are found with some modifications, in the Kalkadoon and neigh- 

 bouring tribes. 2 



West Australian Divisions. 



Capt. Grey, now the octogenarian Sir George, when exploring 

 in West Australia in 1837-39, observed that the natives were 

 divided into certain great families ; and that each family adopted 

 some animal or vegetable as their kobong or totem. A man could 

 not marry a woman of his own family name, and the children 

 always took the family name of their mother. Sir George gives 

 the names of these divisions as Ballaroke, Tdondarup, Ngotak, 

 Nagarnook, Nogonyuk, Mongalung and Narrangar. From his 

 table of genealogies I collect the following partial statement 

 regarding the intermarriage of the sections : 



1 In 1883 Mr. E. Palmer stated that Jimmalingo belonged to Wootharoo 

 among the Leichhardt River tribes, which agrees with Mr. Roth's obser- 

 vations. — Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xiii., 303. 



2 Ethnological Studies among the Australian Aborigines, (1897), p. 57. 



