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19. In every group or tribe there is certain divisions or relationships of rank and family between its individual members, such relationships also commonly holding good between persons of different groups or tribes. The first of these relationships I propose recording is that on which the individual's social status depends, and which gives him his titular rank, or clima-nym. *16. This rank depends upon his bodily development and in most cases upon his having undergone certain of the initiation ceremonies: -
In the Rockhampton District, except perhaps in the area around Miriam Vale, any boy at the first sign of puberty is Known as a walpara. As soon as he arrives at the full development of this physiological condition he undergoes the first of the ceremonies, and gradually advances in rank under the following 'titles':
Rockhampton - Ku-rái-i (when the decorative scars are cut); Ká-wula (when he has his nose pierced and can marry); mín-dara, and mu-lin (any very old man).
Gladstone - Ká-ra, yanpi, Kú-nu-an, Kanka-ánkan.
Rosewood, Yeppoon - Ká-wula, Katta (adult man)
Miriam Vale - yanbi, ínggando, wúr-balim
In the case of the females, any very young girl is spoken of as nai-yín-duro (Rockhampton) or ne-kú-rian (Gladstone). At first puberty she is called wálparan (Torilla), Kám-bal (Rosewood, Marlborough) or bál-kun (Rockhampton).
Having undergone the first ceremony (after which she can marry) at full puberty, she now bears new clima-nyms: -
17* Rockhampton - tapu-rán-doro, and gradually mu-lin (any very old woman)
Gladstone - wá-kalo, ká-kalal, kú-nu-an, Kanka-ánkan
Rosewood - námmuni, Kin-kil
Yeppoon - ár-wuli, dapparo
16. Roth - Ethnol. Studies (est, 1897) sect 68
17. The same name as applied to men in corresponding stage.