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SOCIAL ORGANISATION
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KURNANDABURI GAURA
Yungo. Matara.
Taldra kangaroo Korimora brown snake
Kunlara native companion Kulbara emu
Turra-guna iguana Kanni frilled-lizard
Muro-muro large black cormorant Wirri-pirra kangaroo-rat
Taragoro small black cormorant Kopula speckled brown snake
Kogun-ya blue crane Mirraltiera opossum
Jitti dingo Kokula small bandicoot
Waranguim carpet-snake Korinya small burrowing rat
Warogatchi crow
Karru-wogona small crow
Paringoro small grubs found in trees
Orekomatu a frog
Parina a rat
Willungari teal-duck

The class names suggest that Matara represents Matteri, and Yungo, Kararu; but as to this I have no information, nor does the arrangement of the totems under the two classes give any certainty. Half of the totems under Matara are also under Matteri, and eight of those under Yungo are also under Kararu. The others are either under the opposite class or are not found in the lists given.

But this is certain, that the social organisation of the Yantruwunta and the other Lake Eyre tribes must extend up the Cooper at least as far as the Kurnandaburi tribe.

To the eastward of the Dieri the bounds of the class names Matteri and Kararu are approximately marked by the Grey and Barrier Ranges, These also divide two great groups of tribes, having the two-class system, of which the Dieri is the type on the one side, and the Wilya tribe, whose class names are Kilpara and Mukwara, is the type on the other. The latter group is of great extent, appearing to consist of several nations, of which three, namely, the Itchumundi, the Karamundi, and the Barkinji are known to me. The Wilya tribe is an example of the first.[1]

  1. J. W. Boultbee.