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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA

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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:—

MaleMarriesChildren are
HipaiKubuthaMuri and Mata
KomboMata

Kubi and Kubutha

MuriButhaHipai and Hipatha
KubiHipathaKombo 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]
MaleMarriesChildren are
Kurpaleagle-hawkKarilburanhawkMunalhawk
Kurpallaughing-jackassKarilburanhawkMunalcurlew
Kuiallaeagle-hawkMunalanhawkKarilburahawk
Kuiallalaughing-jackassMunalancurlewKarilburacurlew
KarilburacurlewKurpalanlaughing-jackassKuillalaughing-jackass
KarilburawaterKurpalaneagle-hawkKuillaeagle-hawk
KarilburawallabyKurpalanlaughing-jackassKuillalaughing-jackass
KarilburahawkKurpalaneagle-hawkKuillaeagle-hawk
MunalcurlewKuiallanlaughing-jackassKurpalanlaughing-jackass
MunalwaterKuiallanlaughing-jackassKurpalanlaughing-jackass
MunalhawkKuiallaneagle-hawkKurpalaneagle-hawk
  1. ↑ A. L. P. Cameron.
  2. ↑ W. H. Flowers.
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