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WILYA TRIBE. GREY RANGE Classes. Totems. Bilyara eagle-hawk Tirlta kangaroo Burkunia bandicoot ⁠ Mukwara Kultapa duck Karni frilled-lizard Yaranga Opossum Kurli dingo Kulthi emu Turu carpet-snake ⁠ Kilpara Namba bone-fish Bauanyal padi-melon Wongaru wallaby

This system obtains not only in the Wilya tribe but also in the Kongait, Bulali, and Tongaranka tribes which, with the Wilya, form the Itchumundi nation, all the members bearing that name as well as that of their own tribe. The country occupied by these tribes may be described as lying back from the Darling River, and bounded on the west by the Grey and Barrier Ranges.

The tribes between the junction of the Culgoa with the Darling and Wilcannia form the Karamundi nation, and its class system may be represented by that of the Milpulko tribe.

MILPULKO TRIBE^[1] Classes. Totems. Bilyara eagle-hawk Turlta kangaroo ⁠ Mukwara Burkunia bandicoot Uleburri duck Karni frilled-lizard Kulthi emu Turru carpet-snake Namba bone-fish ⁠ Kilpara Birnal iguana Bauanya padi-melon Yerilpari Opossum Muringa wallaby

1. J. W. Boultbee.