GROUP DIVISIONS AND INITIATION CEREMONIES. 253 



Koorkeela, Koogooroo, Woongo and Widjeroo, with the rules of 

 marriage and descent given by him in his valuable work. 1 



From Broad Sound to Port Curtis, and reaching inland beyond 

 the junction of the Fitzroy and Dawson Rivers are several small 

 tribes, the best known of which is the Kooinmerburra. Their 

 primary divisions are Wootaroo and Yungaroo — the first being 

 subdivided into Moonal and Karilburra, and the latter into Kooi- 

 alla and Koorpal. For these particulars I am personally indebted 

 to Mr. W. H. Flowers, of Medway Station, Bogantungan. 



In an article contributed in 1894 to the Queensland Branch of 

 the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, 2 I inadvertently 

 omitted to mention that Mr. E. M. Curr was the first to report 

 the divisions of the Wokelburra tribe on the Belyando River. I 

 have, however, since amply recognised his valuable researches 

 over a large extent of country in that part of Queensland. 3 



If the tribal organisations given in this Appendix be read in 

 connection with an article contributed by me to the American 

 Philosophical Society, 4 it will be found that I have described the 

 divisional systems of the principal native communities of Queens, 

 land, extending from the boundary of New South Wales to the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, and thence to the Kennedy River, flowing 

 into Princess Charlotte Bay, on the eastern coast. This immense 

 area comprises the whole of the colony of Queensland, with the 

 exception of the northern portion of Cape York Peninsula. 



Explanation of Plate. 

 No. 1 on the map represents the Barkunjee nation, which is 

 situated chiefly in New South "Wales, but extends a little way 

 within the frontiers of each of the three adjoining colonies, — 

 Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland. In this community 

 I have included all those tribes who possess the group divisions 

 known as Muckwarra and Keelparra. It has been shown in earlier 



1 Australian Eace, n., 418 and 425. Mr. Curr gives some variations in 

 the names of the four sections mentioned, among adjacent tribes. 



2 Proc. Eoy. Geog. Soc. Aust. (Q.) x., 30. 



3 Journ. Eoy. Soc, "8. S. Wales, xxxn., 80. 



4 " Divisions of Queensland Aborigines." — Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc.,, 

 (Philadelphia, U.S.A.) Vol. xxxvu., No. 158, with map of Queensland. 



