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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA

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|+ style="line-height:200%;" | YENDAKARANGU TOTEMS | width=25% colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Classes. || width=30% style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Totems. || style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Marries with |- | rowspan=8 style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | Kararu || rowspan=8 style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Cloud || style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Wadnamura |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Crow || style="padding-left:1em;" | Wadnamura and Eagle-hawk. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Red ochre || style="padding-left:1em;" | Cormorant and Eagle-hawk. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Rat || style="padding-left:1em;" | Cormorant and Bull-frog. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Wallaby || style="padding-left:1em;" | Iguana and Lizard. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Emu || style="padding-left:1em;" | Eagle-hawk and Bull-frog. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Musk duck || style="padding-left:1em;" | Eagle-hawk and Dog. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Snake || style="padding-left:1em;" | Wadnamura. |- | rowspan=8 style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | Matteri || rowspan=8 style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Eagle-hawk || style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Red ochre, Musk duck, and Crow. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Cormorant || style="padding-left:1em;" | Rat and Red ochre. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Iguana || style="padding-left:1em;" | Wallaby. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Dog || style="padding-left:1em;" | Musk duck. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Wadnamura || style="padding-left:1em;" | Snake, Cloud, Crow. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Mulga tree[1] || style="padding-left:1em;" | Emu. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;" | Bull-frog. || style="padding-left:1em;" | Rat. |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Lizard || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Wallaby. |}

This table is evidently imperfect. According to the almost universal rule, which obtains also with the Yendakarangu, that sisters arc exchanged as wives, there should be reciprocity between the totems in their marriages. In the list this is the case as to some of each class, and therefore one is fairly justified in believing that it is so with the others. On this view I have added those totems which have been omitted, but which appear to be reciprocal and which are in italics to distinguish them.

Professor Spencer has been so good as to point out to me that in the northern part of the Urabunna they were very emphatic in stating that a man of one totem could only marry a woman of a certain totem of the other class. The marriages of that tribe are given as follows[2]:—

URABUNNA TOTEMS
Matthurie.Kirarawa.
DingomarriesWater-hen.
Cicada"Crow.
Emu"Rat.
Wild turkey"Cloud.
Swan"Pelican.
  1. Malka is Acacia Aneura, anglicised as Mulga.
  2. Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. p. 60.
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