[3] I shall, for my own part, use 'phratry' for the two 'primary exogamous divisions' of a tribe, and 'class' for the divisions within the 'phratry' which do not appear to be of totemic origin. Mr. Fison applies 'class' to both the primary divisions and those contained in each of them, observing that 'the Greek "phratria" would be the most correct term.' He is aware, of course, that this employment of phratria is arbitrary, but it is convenient. While he applies 'class' both to 'the primary divisions of a community, and their first subdivisions,' to the latter I restrict 'classes,' using phratry for the former (Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 24).
[4] Jour. and Proc. of the Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xxviii, xxxii, xxxiv.
[5] Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. xxxiv. 120-122.
[6] Prov. Jour. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xxxiv. 127. Mr. Fison makes an exception for some Kamilaroi.
[7] This view is discussed later.
[8] P. 27 et seq.
[9] There is a tradition of an aboriginal Adam, who had two wives, Kilpara and Mukwara, these being the names of two phratries. On this showing brothers married paternal half-sisters (Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 33).
[10] Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 40.
[11] J. A. I. xiv. 142.
[12] Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xviii. 264.