Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia

by Northcote Whitridge Thomas

[84] Woods, p. 222.

[85] Howitt, p. 187.

[86] Nor. Tr. p. 60.

[87] Howitt, p. 97.

[88] Howitt, p. 92; Mathews in J. R. S. N. S. W. XXXIII, 108.

[89] Mathews in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. XXXIX, 187.

[90] Sci. Man, I. 84; Mathews in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. XXXIX, 89; in J. R. S. N. S. W. he reports a third name in certain districts—Koorameenya.

[91] Mathews in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. XXXIX, 89.

TABLE III.

Allusion has been made in Chapter III to kinship organisations denominated "bloods" and "shades" by Mr R. H. Mathews. Whether it is that some observers have mistaken these for phratries or vice versâ, it seems that the names of the two classes of organisation are at present inextricably intermingled, as the following table shows: