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YENDAKARANGU TOTEMS

Classes.		Totems.	Marries with
Kararu	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Cloud	Wadnamura
		Crow	Wadnamura and Eagle-hawk.
		Red ochre	Cormorant and Eagle-hawk.
		Rat	Cormorant and Bull-frog.
		Wallaby	Iguana and Lizard.
		Emu	Eagle-hawk and Bull-frog.
		Musk duck	Eagle-hawk and Dog.
		Snake	Wadnamura.
Matteri	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Eagle-hawk	Red ochre, Musk duck, and Crow.
		Cormorant	Rat and Red ochre.
		Iguana	Wallaby.
		Dog	Musk duck.
		Wadnamura	Snake, Cloud, Crow.
		Mulga tree[1]	Emu.
		Bull-frog.	Rat.
		Lizard	Wallaby.

This table is evidently imperfect. According to the almost universal rule, which obtains also with the Yendakarangu, that sisters arc exchanged as wives, there should be reciprocity between the totems in their marriages. In the list this is the case as to some of each class, and therefore one is fairly justified in believing that it is so with the others. On this view I have added those totems which have been omitted, but which appear to be reciprocal and which are in italics to distinguish them.

Professor Spencer has been so good as to point out to me that in the northern part of the Urabunna they were very emphatic in stating that a man of one totem could only marry a woman of a certain totem of the other class. The marriages of that tribe are given as follows^[2]:—

URABUNNA TOTEMS

Matthurie.		Kirarawa.
Dingo	marries	Water-hen.
Cicada	"	Crow.
Emu	"	Rat.
Wild turkey	"	Cloud.
Swan	"	Pelican.

1. Malka is Acacia Aneura, anglicised as Mulga.
2. Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. p. 60.