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The Native Tribes of North Central Australia: Chapter II. The Social Organisation of the Tribes

Baldwin SpencerCentral Australian AboriginesDreamtime Rock ArtTotemism

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The Native Tribes of North Central Australia, by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen [1899] Division of the tribe into two exogamous intermarrying groups—Remarks on “group-marriage”—Terms of relationship—The latter are not in these tribes “terms of address,” the object of which is the avoidance of the use of personal names—There are no terms of relationship in English which convey the same meaning as do those of Australian natives—Organisation of the Urabunna tribe—Marriage regulated by…