. Across Australia . will be seen that in the Urabunna tribe descent iscounted in the direct female line ; in the Arunta in whatis called the indirect male line—that is, the child goes intothe fathers side of the tribe, but into the half of it towhich he does not belong ; and in the Mara the descentis in the direct male line. The feature in the Maratribe which puzzled us most was that a Morungun man,for example, married either a Kuial or a Purdal woman,which was of course quite distinct from the Aruntasystem or that of any other tribe we had hithertomet with. It was only after very careful inv
. Across Australia . will be seen that in the Urabunna tribe descent iscounted in the direct female line ; in the Arunta in whatis called the indirect male line—that is, the child goes intothe fathers side of the tribe, but into the half of it towhich he does not belong ; and in the Mara the descentis in the direct male line. The feature in the Maratribe which puzzled us most was that a Morungun man,for example, married either a Kuial or a Purdal woman,which was of course quite distinct from the Aruntasystem or that of any other tribe we had hithertomet with. It was only after very careful investigationand a comparison of the Mara system with that of theBinbinga, which agrees fundamentally with the Arunta,that we were able to find out what special Murungunmen married Purdal or Kuial women, as the case might be,and so on with the other sub-classes. There are twogroups, for example, of Murungun men and two ofPurdal women, and a man of one Murungun group onlymarries a woman of one Purdal group ; the other.
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