THE TOTEMIC DIVISIONS OF AUSTRALIAN TRIBES. 165 
section. The application of this rule to the four divisions can be 
readily eespeood from the Pisin table :— 
Father. Son. Son’ s Wife. | Children of Son’s Wife. 
Murri | Ippai or Kubbi | Kubbitha | Murri and Matha 
Kubbi | Kumbo or Murri| Matha Kubbi and Kubbitha 
Ippai Murri or Kumbo | Butha Ippai and Ippatha 
Kumbo | Kubbi or Ippai_ | Ippatha Kumbo and Butha 
It has been stated in an earlier page that under the original 
group division, the Dilbis are ‘“ brothers-in-law” to the Kupathins, 
and conversely. This applies to the men of their own level in the 
generation, but on tracing the relationship of these men to the 
children we find that the Dilbi men are the iathers of the 
Kupathin boys, and the Kupathin men are the fathers of the 
Dilbi boys. Both these relationships also hold good under the 
sectional divisions. Murri and Kumbo are related to each other 
as brothers-in-law, and Ippai and Kubbi have the same mutual 
affinity. The Kubbi men are the fathers of the Kumbo boys and 
the Ippai men are the fathers of the Murri boys—this relationship 
being of course reversed in the next generation. (See table A.) 
Although the boys only are mentioned, children of both sexes 
will, of course, be understood. 
Again, Murri provides wives for the young men belonging to 
the other section in his division. We have seen by Table A. that 
ifhe marry a Butha, his daughter is Ippatha, and if he marry a 
Matha his daughter is Kubbitha. Ippatha and Kubbitha are the 
women who are eligible for marriage with Kubbi. It is evident — 
therefore that Murri’s daughter becomes the wife of Kubbi, and 
Murri takes the daughter of Kubbi as his wife. In a similar 
Manner it can be shown that Ippai marries Kumbo’s daughter, 
and Kumbo claims the daughter of Ippai. 
In those cases where a man is allowed to marry a woman within 
his own section, Murri is the father of Kubbi, and so on for the 
men of the other sections, as exemplified in Table A. Accordingly, 
the children of a Dilbi father are Dilbi, and a Kupathin is is the 
