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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 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

  1. ↑ J. H. Kirkham.
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