[291] Loc. cit., p. 251. The tribes in question are those of the Murchison district.
[292] Loc. cit., p. 51.
[293] Loc. cit., p. 279.
[294] Loc. cit., p. 280.
[295] Loc. cit., p. 39.
[296] See Smith. Rep. for 1883, pp. 804 sqq. Chap. iv. on "Marital groups," p. 810, and Trans. R.S.V., pp. 115 sqq.
[297] It is to be mentioned that we find an indication in a few statements that fidelity was binding only on the female, the males considering themselves free from any obligation (Howitt's statement on the Kurnai, and Mrs. Parker's statement on the Euahlayi.) This holds good, probably, in all the tribes.
[298] See below, [page 107].
[299] Comp. [Chap. II.], and Chap. VII. [p. 257].
[300] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., chap. iii., and Nor. Tr., chap. iv. Roth, Ethnol. Stud., p. 174, § 305.