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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA

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|+ WILYA TRIBE. GREY RANGE | colspan=2 width=50% style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;border-right:1px solid black;" | Classes. || colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;" | Totems. |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Bilyara || eagle-hawk |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Tirlta || kangaroo |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Burkunia || bandicoot |- | ⁠ Mukwara || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Kultapa || duck |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Karni || frilled-lizard |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Yaranga || Opossum |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Kurli || dingo |- | || style="border-right:1px solid black;" | || |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Kulthi || emu |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Turu || carpet-snake |- | ⁠ Kilpara || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Namba || bone-fish |- | || style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:1em;" | Bauanyal || padi-melon |- | style="border-bottom:1px solid black;" | || style="text-align:right;border-bottom:1px solid black;border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Wongaru || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;" | wallaby |}

This system obtains not only in the Wilya tribe but also in the Kongait, Bulali, and Tongaranka tribes which, with the Wilya, form the Itchumundi nation, all the members bearing that name as well as that of their own tribe. The country occupied by these tribes may be described as lying back from the Darling River, and bounded on the west by the Grey and Barrier Ranges.

The tribes between the junction of the Culgoa with the Darling and Wilcannia form the Karamundi nation, and its class system may be represented by that of the Milpulko tribe.

  1. ↑ J. W. Boultbee.
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