Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 19 These districts are subdivided among the several families of the tribes. I am of opinion that each family has its own proper name, but I have no evidence that this is the case nor do I find totems, or that there is any restriction as to food. The laws governing marriage, too, remain to be discovered; I have little information except that in certain instances, where the indi viduals were pointed out, on would have been the wife of I) had a been born a girl, or b the wife of 0 were 6 female A Larraki'a stated, in the first instance, that the issue was from a common forefather, I) being descended in male line from one wife, and a descended in female line (until a) from another wife. These cases may Simply mean that the parents arranged a marriage before the birth of the infants, sex being favorable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.