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male + female = nerulling [?] offspring.
Kupuru + Kurkilla = Banbari
Wungko + Banbari = Kurkulli
Kurkilla + Kupuru = Wungko
Banbari + Wungku = Kupuru
the arrangement being graphically illustrated in the table opposite p. 64 in the 'Ethnological Studies' *23.
But if the term 'exogamous' division is to be preserved, it must be clearly born in mind that hte arrange-ment does not per se prevent consanguinity, that it does actually prevent the union of couples between whom there cannot possibly be any consanguinuity, and that on certain definite occasions over a large area of country it may be ignored. *24 Consanguinity is everywhere prevented by laws of its own; a man for instance may not marry his mother's brother's daught, his father's sisters' daughter, his daughter's daughter, etc, although they fall within the division out of which it is lawful for him to pick a wife - this is usually the solution of the difficult which I understand observers have now and again come across in the case of natives unable to live sexually with others apparently belonging to the proper exogamous division.
As is well known, each of these exogamous divisions is tabu'd from either eating, killing, touching etc certain animals, and if by totemism pure and simply is to be understood a[s] certain relationships betwee an individual or group of individuals and an animal or group of animals, then by all means let these divisions be called totemic. In no sense, however, can they be deemed totemic in the sense of the totemisim described as being met with in the Central Australian Tribes by [indecipherable] Giller & Spencer, my views on the matter being recently confirmed for the Extreme North Australian Tribes by Professor Klaatsch. More than this, though as already shown, I have traced the identity of the divisions from one end of North
23. Roth - Ethnol. Studies, 1897, opp p. 64. Up till about four years ago, I thought that I had attained from the Aunan[?] River district a set of divisions shewing a different line of descent to that met with in Boulia on further investigation they confirm to the actual [indecipherable].
24. Roth, Ethnol., sect 71 a.b.c. Ethnol. Studies.