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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
CH.
| Tribe | Obtains wives from | Gives wives to | |
| 1 | Wakelbura | 3 and 8 | 2 and 3 |
| 2 | Auanbura | 1 " 14 | 5 " 6 |
| 3 | Mutherabura | 2 " 13 | 13 " 1 |
| 4 | Dorobura | 11 " 12 | 10 " 11 |
| 5 | Tilbabura | 6 " 8 | 6 " 2 |
| 6 | Terrabura | 8 " 2 | 5 " 8 |
| 7 | Mutabura | 8 " 9 | 9 " 6 |
| 8 | Kumbukabura | 6 " 10 | 7 " 1 |
| 9 | Munkibura | 8 " 11 | 1 " 4 |
| 10 | Boanbura | 4 " 10 | 12 " 10 |
| 11 | Bingabura | 11 " 4 | 11 " 2 |
| 12 | Babingbura | 3 " 13 | 3 " 13 |
| 13 | Buthalibura | Not ascertained. | |
In seven instances there is reciprocity between one of each of the intermarrying tribes, in one between both. The latter is, I think, the most usual custom.
The marriages and descents in the Bnntamurra tribe of the Bulloo River are as follows:[1]—
| Male | Marries | Children are |
| Gurgela | Guberugun | Wongo and Wongogun |
| Banbari | Wongogun | Guberu and Guberugun |
| Wongo | Banbarigun | Gurgela and Gurgelagun |
| Guberu | Gurgelagun | Banbari and Banbarigun |
This falls in with the normal marriage system of the four sub-class tribes with female descent.
The totemic marriages are also with descent in the female line, the child taking the totem of its mother. But
- ↑ J. H. Kirkham.
