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SOCIAL ORGANISATION
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showing a wider extension of the names which were first observed in one of the Kamilaroi tribes.
Classes. | Sub-Classes. | |
Kupathin | Balgoin | |
Bunda | ||
Tilbi | Parang | |
Theirwain |
In Great Sandy Island there is the same system, and I obtained the following from a man who was Theirwein-wurumi.
Classes. | Sub-Classes. | Totems. | |||
Not known | Balgoin | Thulla | water snake | ||
Kogea | carpet snake | ||||
Murri | red kangaroo | ||||
Moroin | emu | ||||
Mebeit | turtle | ||||
Worowe | iguana | ||||
Bunda | Meri | black dingo | |||
Murong | black duck | ||||
Brongun | thunder | ||||
Wotcha | yellow dingo | ||||
Baring | Waga | fish-hawk | |||
Huntcha | bream | ||||
Therwain | Wurumi | fire | |||
Gorgoi | opossum |
In this tribe, and probably in all tribes between the Bunya-Bunya Mountains and Great Sandy Island, descent is in the male line. For instance my informant, Theirwein-wurumi, took his class and totem names from his father.
I am not able to define the northern limits of this class
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