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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
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Murray than the Rufus, to which place the Wiimbaio tribe extended.

All that I have been able to ascertain of the class system of that tribe is as follows, but it suffices to show that it must have been very similar to the systems already given for tribes higher up the Darling River. This tribe extended for about 60 miles up the Murray on the south side.


On the northern side of the river there is the Ta-tathi tribe, whose class names are Mukwara and Kilpara, but I am unable to say to which class the two groups of totems given below belonged, unless by analogy with other tribes, Eagle-hawk, Teal-duck, and Jew-lizard, should be Mukwara, and Crow, Iguana, and brown Eagle-hawk, Kilpara.

Tribes having these class names extended up the Murray River as far as the Loddon, and I have no doubt that, had

  1. J. Bulmer.
  2. A. L. P. Cameron. Op. cit. p. 349.