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30.
Amongst tribes occupying the border country between Queensland and the Northern Territory, are the yaro-inga to be met with at Headingley [?] and Law Nash on the Upper Georgina River, and the Workai-a *22 higher up the river at Camooweal, etc. These, in common with other people int he Territory, have eight paedomatronyms (with the one term applicable to both male and female members of each division) traceable into the four of the rest of North Queensland and follows: -
yaro-inga: -
alloquara
andraja
| yaro-inga:- | workai-a:- | |
| alloquara | pelyarinjo | Kupuru |
| andraja | plengo | |
| odalja | woreto | wungko |
| angalaja | jerameramo | |
| a-ngella | Kangil | Kurkilla |
| anawra | yekamaro | |
| biltara | pangarinjo | banbari |
| mo-jo | wanko |
The Karawa Tribe, at the head of Settlement creek in the Gulf Country, to be often met with at, probably their chief cap, Wollogorang Station about four miles within the Northern Territory border also have the eight primary divisions, but having separate terms for the male and female members, apparently possess 16; so far I have not had sufficiently reliable interpreters to identify them with the Boulia ones.
21. Throughout the whole of North Queensland, sexual communion, with its specialisation of marriage, is only permissible on the following lines, hence these four divisions have been termed exogamous groups or divisions; -
22. These are identical, so one of the authors tells me, with the Waagai of North Spencer Gilleru [?]