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NARRANG-GA TRIBE

Classes.		Totems.		Local Divisions.
Kari—emu	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Miduga	swallow	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Kurnara—the northern part of the peninsula south of Wallaroo, Kadina, and Clinton
		Bolara	mullet
		Waltha	wild turkey
		Murtu	magpie
		Winta	mopoke
		Waldaru	lark
		Kadli	dingo
Waui—red kangaroo	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	All totems together with the class name are extinct.		$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Windera—the eastern part of the peninsula
Wiltu—eagle-hawk	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Wortu	wombat	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Wari—the western part of the peninsula
		Wolda	wallaby
		Nantu	kangaroo
		Multa	seal
		Gua	crow
Wilthuthu—shark	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Maiabado	wild goose	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Dilpa—the extreme part of the peninsula
		Willi	pelican
		Kangburra	butter-fish
		Monditu	sting-ray
		Walaltu	whiting

I have added to this table the local divisions in order to show at a glance how the class organisation and the local organisation cover the same ground.

The Narrinyeri tribe^[1] was divided into eighteen local clans, each inhabiting a different tract of country. That is to say, in each of fourteen there was one totem only; in three there were three each, and in one there were two. From this we see that the process was nearly complete, of confining one totem to one locality. In the Narrang-ga tribe it was complete, but in the Narrinyeri it was in process of completion. In this process of localisation the class or sub-class, which from a process of analogy we may well believe once existed, must have died out. With the Wurunjerri it was the totems all but one which disappeared, the class names having survived. In the following table are the totems, each of which represents a clan, with the exceptions before mentioned.

The names of the clans are such as might have been at

one time totems. For instance, Piltinyeri, which means

1. Kornar="man," inyeri="belonging to or of."—Rev. G. Taplin and Mr. F. W. Taplin.