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MARRIAGE RULES

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|+ style="line-height:200%;" | WIRADJURI TRIBE
Southern Branch |- | colspan=2 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;" | Male || colspan=2 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;" | Marries || colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Children are |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | (Aa) || colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | (Bd) || colspan=2 style="text-align:center;padding-top:1em;" | (Bc) |- | width=10% | Yibai || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | eagle-hawk (1) || width=15% style="padding-left:1em;" | Kubbitha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | bush-rat (5) || width=25% style="padding-left:1em;" | Murri and Matha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | bush-rat (5) |- | Yibai || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | mallee-hen || style="padding-left:1em;" | Kubbitha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | flying-squirrel || style="padding-left:1em;" | Murri and Matha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | flying-squirrel |- | Yibai || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | opossum || style="padding-left:1em;" | Kubbitha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | bush-rat || style="padding-left:1em;" | Murri and Matha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | bush-rat |- | Yibai || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | opossum || style="padding-left:1em;" | Kubbitha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | flying-squirrel || style="padding-left:1em;" | Murri and Matha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | flying-squirrel |- | style="padding-top:1em;" | Wumbi || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;padding-top:1em;" | blood-sucker lizard || style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Matha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | young emu || style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Kubbi and Kubbitha || style="padding-top:1em;" | young emu |- | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | (Bc) || colspan=2 style="text-align:center;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | (Ab) || colspan=2 style="text-align:center;padding-top:1em;" | (Aa) |- | Murri || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | young emu (3) || style="padding-left:1em;" | Butha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | blood-sucker lizard (8) || style="padding-left:1em;" | Yibai and Yibatha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | blood-sucker lizard (8) |- | style="padding-top:1em;" | Kubbi || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | bush-rat || style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Yibatha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;" | eagle-hawk || style="padding-left:1em;padding-top:1em;" | Wumbi and Butha || style="padding-top:1em;" | eagle-hawk |- | Kubbi || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | flying-squirrel || style="padding-left:1em;" | Yibatha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | mallee-hen || style="padding-left:1em;" | Wumbi and Butha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | mallee-hen |- | Kubbi || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | bush-rat || style="padding-left:1em;" | Yibatha || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | opossum || style="padding-left:1em;" | Wumbi and Butha || style="padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;" | opossum |- | style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-bottom:1em;" | Kubbi || style="border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | bandicoot || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Yibatha || style="border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | opossum || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Wumbi and Butha || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:1em; text-indent:-1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | opossum |}

As an example I give a diagram of one marriage in each class, namely, the first in Yibai, and that in Murri.

Diagram XIII
YibaiMurri
m. Aa 1m. Aa 3
f. Bd 5f. Ab 8
    
m. and f. Bc 5m. and f. Aa 8
etc.etc.

This shows that, in the first place, descent is in the female line; in the second, that while the class and the totem descend direct from mother to child, the sub-class is alternatively one of the two which represent the class. Each totem is restricted to marriage with certain totems of the other class, and not, as in the Dieri tribe, for instance, allowed to marry any of those totems.

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