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THE TRIBAL ORGANISATION
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indicating that it belonged to another nation who used that term in common.
The Biduelli Tribe[1]
In that part of Eastern Victoria called Croajingolong there was a small tribe called the Biduelli, who occupied the forest and jungle covered country between the high coast
FIG. 7.—A KURNAI WOMAN.
ranges and the immediate coast along which the Kurnai lived. This tribe may be considered an appendix to the Ngarigo, Murring, and Kurnai, being a mixture from them all.
They had the two sex totems of the Kurnai, some of the Murring totem names, and also the two class names of the Ngarigo. These people were enclosed in one of the most inhospitable tracts of country which I know of in south-eastern Australia, lying behind a narrow strip of
- ↑ This name is derived from brida, "scrub," and uelli, "dweller."
