86 R. H. MATHEWS. 



further details regarding the divisional names and totems, with 

 the rules of marriage and descent established in relation to them. 

 When Sir John Forrest visited Mchol Bay on the north-west 

 coast, in 1878, he found that the aborigines were divided into four 

 families, with rules of marriage and descent which he tabulated 

 in the following manner :— 



Husband Wife Children 



Paljarie Kimera Banigher 



BooruDggnoo Banigher Kimera 



Kimera Paljarie Boorunggnoo 



Banigher Boorunggnoo Paljarie 



The grand-child in the male line is of the same family as his 

 grand-father; and in the female line, of the same family as her 

 grand-mother. 1 



In 1880, the Rev. L. Fison published these class names, which 

 he had obtained from a correspondent, as Paliali, Paronga, Kimera 

 and Banaka. 2 A correspondent furnished Mr. E. M. Curr with 

 the same divisions in 1886, which he reported as Palyeery, Boor- 

 urigo, Kymurra, and Panaka. 3 The resemblance of these names 

 to those of the divisions at Alice Springs, 1000 miles to the east- 

 ward, is remarkable. 



Equivalence of Divisions. 

 It is highly important to show how the groups and sections of 

 a tribe in one district correspond to those of other tribes in different 

 parts of the country. From some natives whom Mr. Jackson met 

 about Oodnadatta, Macumba and Charlotte "Waters, he ascertained 

 that the group Mattiri of the Arrabunna tribe was equivalent to 

 the pair of sections, Bultara and Parulla of the Arrinda tribe ; 

 and the group Karraru to the sections Panungka and Koomara. 

 I subsequently checked this statement by referring to Mr. Kempe 

 of Peake Station, who gave me the same answer. 



1 Journ. Anthrop. Inst., ix., 356, 357. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., n., 

 653, 654. 



2 Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 36. 



3 The Australian Eace, i., 298. 



