110 R. H. MATHEWS. 



another variation of these section names among the natives at 

 Normanton. 1 



The present article, however, is the first in which the geographic 

 range of the aggregate of tribes composing this community has 

 been published, and the descent of the children clearly established. 

 The sections Arenia and Arara correspond to Karpungie and 

 Cheekunjee respectively, and the sections Loora and Arrawonga 

 to Kellungie and Koopungie of the Warkeemon community, 

 reported by me in 1898. 2 The rules of intermarriage among the 

 Goothanto are as shown hereunder : — 



Table No. 2. 



Phratry. Husband. Wife. Offspring. 



. ( Arenia Loora Arrawongo 



Arara Arrawongo Loora 



"3- 



B. 



( Loora Arenia Arara 



\ Arrawongo Arara Arenia 



The country watered by the Lower Mitchell, Alice, Coleman, 

 Palmer and other rivers is inhabited by the Koonjan, Goonamon, 

 and several friendly tribes, possessing four intermarrying divisions 

 and matriarchal descent, as under : — 



Table No. 3. 

 Phratry. Husband. Wife. Offspring. 



. \ Ahjeereena Perrynung Mahngal 



( Arrennynung Mahngal Perrynung 



„ J Perrynung Ahjeereena Arrennynung 



( Mahngal Arrennynung Ahjeereena 



On a tract of country at the junction of the Dawson with the 

 Fitzroy, and thence westerly to Arthur's Bluff, extending also 

 north and south for some distance, is a tribe called Kang-ool-lo, 

 having four sections, the names of which are evidently modifica- 

 tions or combinations of those in use among the Dippil and Kooin- 

 merburra nations. The names of the sections, and how they 

 intermarry are as shown hereunder : — 



i Ethnological Studies, Queensland Aborigines, p. 68. 

 2 Journ. Roy. Soc, N.S. Wales, xxxn., 250-251. 



