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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
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|- | || Tribe || Obtains wives from || Gives wives to |- | 1 || Wakelbura || 3 and 8 || 2 and 3 |- | 2 || Auanbura || 1 " 14 || 5 " 6 |- | 3 || Mutherabura || 2 " 13 || 13 " 1 |- | 4 || Dorobura || 11 " 12 || 10 " 11 |- | 5 || Tilbabura || 6 " 8 || 6 " 2 |- | 6 || Terrabura || 8 " 2 || 5 " 8 |- | 7 || Mutabura || 8 " 9 || 9 " 6 |- | 8 || Kumbukabura || 6 " 10 || 7 " 1 |- | 9 || Munkibura || 8 " 11 || 1 " 4 |- | 10 || Boanbura || 4 " 10 || 12 " 10 |- | 11 || Bingabura || 11 " 4 || 11 " 2 |- | 12 || Babingbura || 3 " 13 || 3 " 13 |- | 13 || Buthalibura || colspan="2" | Not ascertained. |}
In seven instances there is reciprocity between one of each of the intermarrying tribes, in one between both. The latter is, I think, the most usual custom.
The marriages and descents in the Bnntamurra tribe of the Bulloo River are as follows:[1]—
Male | Marries | Children are |
Gurgela | Guberugun | Wongo and Wongogun |
Banbari | Wongogun | Guberu and Guberugun |
Wongo | Banbarigun | Gurgela and Gurgelagun |
Guberu | Gurgelagun | Banbari and Banbarigun |
This falls in with the normal marriage system of the four sub-class tribes with female descent.
The totemic marriages are also with descent in the female line, the child taking the totem of its mother. But
- ↑ J. H. Kirkham.