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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA

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|+ style="line-height:200%;" | WONGHIBON CLASS SYSTEM^[1] | width=30% 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=35% 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;" | Sub-Classes. || style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Totems. |- | rowspan=3 style="text-align:right;padding-top:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | Ngielbumurra || rowspan=3 style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:2em;padding-top:1em;" | Ipai || style="padding-left:2em;padding-top:1em;" | Mallee-hen |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:2em;" | Emu |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:2em;" | Kumbo || style="padding-left:2em;" | Opossum |- | rowspan=3 style="text-align:right;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | Mukumurra || rowspan=3 style="text-align:right;border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:middle;" | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ || style="border-right:1px solid black;padding-left:2em;padding-top:1em;" | Murri || style="padding-left:2em;padding-top:1em;" | Black duck |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;" | || style="padding-left:2em;" | Bandicoot |- | style="border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:2em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Kubbi || style="border-bottom:1px solid black;padding-left:2em;padding-bottom:1em;" | Red kangaroo |}

The marriages and descents are as follows, including the anomalous unions, which are marked *. The normal marriages are placed first.

Male		Marries			Children are
Ipai	mallee-hen		Kubbitha	black duck	The children are always of the moether's class and totem, and of the fellow sub-class to hers.
		*	Matha	kangaroo
		*	Matha	bandicoot
Ipai	emu		Kubbitha	black duck
			Kubbitha	bandicoot
		*	Matha	Kangaroo
Ipai	opposum		Kubbitha	kangaroo
		*	Matha	black duck
		*	Matha	bandicoot
Kumbo	mallee-hen		Matha	black duck
		*	Kubbitha	bandicoot
		*	Kubbitha	kangaroo
Kumbo	emu		Matha	black duck
			Matha	bandicoot
		*	Kubbitha	kangaroo
Kumbo	opossum		Matha	kangaroo
		*	Kubbitha	black duck
		*	Kubbitha	bandicoot
Murri	kangaroo		Butha	opossum
		*	Ipatha	mallee-hen
		*	Ipatha	emu

↑ A. L. P. Cameron

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[1] A. L. P. Cameron

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