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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
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Classes. | Sub-Classes. | Totems. | |
Ngielbumurra | Ipai | Mallee-hen | |
Emu | |||
Kumbo | Opossum | ||
Mukumurra | Murri | Black duck | |
Bandicoot | |||
Kubbi | 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