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u. not can intermarry with each other; aber keine realisirte G ens, w eil sie fallunter 2 names (wie Ippai u. Ippata), each o f w hich is integral for certainpurposes; u. w eil their children take different names from their own.D . classes stand to each other in a different order with respect to right o fmarriage, or rather cohabitation (since brother and sister are not allowedto intermarry) vi% s o :1) Ippai can marry 4) K apota, and no other / Später— as shown2) K u m b o 3) M ata hereafter, dies scheme3) M urri 2) Buta I so far m odified, that4) K u b b i 1) Ippata 1 each class o f males gets\ right o f intermarriageI mit an additional classI o f fem ales; dies en-1 croachm ent vo n gens\upon class.Each male in the selection o f a w ife so lim ited to 1 /4 o f all the Kam ilaroiw ives.65 Theoret{i}sch jede K apota the w ife o f every Ippai. Q uotesRev. Fison quotes vo n a letter o f M r. T . E . Lance (der lange in Australiengelebt): “ if a K u b b i meets a stranger Ippata, th e(y) address each otheras Goleer = Spouse... A K u b b i thus m eeting an Ippata, even though shewere o f another tribe, w ould treat her as his w ife, and his right to do sow ould be recognized by her tribe.”Under the conjugal system, 1 /4 aller males united in marriage w ith 1 /4 allerfemales o f the Kam ilaroi tribes.W hd d. Kinder blieben in gens ihrer M utter, gingen sie über in eine andreKlasse, in selber gens, different from that o f either parent.M ale Female M ale Female1) Ippai marries 4) Kapota: their children are j ) M urri u. f ) M ata2) Kumbo 3) M ata 4) Kubbi u. 4) Kapota3) M urri 2) Buta 1) Ippai u. i) Ippata4) Kubbi „ 1) Ippata „ „ „ 2) Kumbo u. 2) Buta.Folgt man d. fem ale line, so K apota (4) ist die M utter o f M ata (3) u. M ata (3)ist hin wiederum die M utter o f K apota; ebenso Buta (2) M utter vo n Ippata(1) u. hinwiederum Ippata (1) die M utter von Buta (2). Selbes m it maleclass; da aber descent in the fem ale line, leiten sich d. Kamilaroi tribes selbstab vo n 2 supposedfemale ancestors, w hich laid the foundation for 2 originalgentes. - B y tracing the descent still further fand that the blood o f eachclass passes through a ll classes.O bgleich jedes Individuum einen d. oben erwähnten class names führt,so daneben the single personal name com m on am ong savages as w ell asbarbarous tribes.T he gentile organization supervened naturally upon the classes as anhigher organisation, by simply enfolding them unchanged, encroaches thenupon them. |141