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had been promised went for her, accompanied by his totemic comrades.^[1]

The sub-class marriage rule in the Unghi tribe was as follows:—

Male	Marries	Children are
Hipai	Kubutha	Muri and Mata
Kombo	Mata	Kubi and Kubutha
Muri	Butha	Hipai and Hipatha
Kubi	Hipatha	Kombo and Butha

The system of four sub-classes with descent in the female line is succeeded in southern Queensland by four other sub-classes with male descent. These continue to somewhere about Rockhampton, and are succeeded by tribes having also four sub-classes, but with descent in the female line. Of these latter I take the Kuinmurbura tribe which lived in the peninsula between Broad Sound and Shoalwater Bay as the representatives. The following table gives the marriages of the sub-classes and totems:—

KUINMURBURA MARRIAGES AND DESCENTS^[2]

Male		Marries		Children are
Kurpal	eagle-hawk	Karilburan	hawk	Munal	hawk
Kurpal	laughing-jackass	Karilburan	hawk	Munal	curlew
Kuialla	eagle-hawk	Munalan	hawk	Karilbura	hawk
Kuialla	laughing-jackass	Munalan	curlew	Karilbura	curlew
Karilbura	curlew	Kurpalan	laughing-jackass	Kuilla	laughing-jackass
Karilbura	water	Kurpalan	eagle-hawk	Kuilla	eagle-hawk
Karilbura	wallaby	Kurpalan	laughing-jackass	Kuilla	laughing-jackass
Karilbura	hawk	Kurpalan	eagle-hawk	Kuilla	eagle-hawk
Munal	curlew	Kuiallan	laughing-jackass	Kurpalan	laughing-jackass
Munal	water	Kuiallan	laughing-jackass	Kurpalan	laughing-jackass
Munal	hawk	Kuiallan	eagle-hawk	Kurpalan	eagle-hawk

1. A. L. P. Cameron.
2. W. H. Flowers.