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 * + | YENDAKARANGU TOTEMS
 * width=25% colspan=2 | Classes. || width=30%  | Totems. ||  | Marries with
 * rowspan=8 | Kararu || rowspan=8  |  ||  | Cloud ||  | Wadnamura
 * | Crow || | Wadnamura and Eagle-hawk.
 * | Red ochre || | Cormorant and Eagle-hawk.
 * | Rat || | Cormorant and Bull-frog.
 * | Wallaby || | Iguana and Lizard.
 * | Emu || | Eagle-hawk and Bull-frog.
 * | Musk duck || | Eagle-hawk and Dog.
 * | Snake || | Wadnamura.
 * rowspan=8 | Matteri || rowspan=8  |  ||  | Eagle-hawk ||  | Red ochre, Musk duck, and Crow.
 * | Cormorant || | Rat and Red ochre.
 * | Iguana || | Wallaby.
 * | Dog || | Musk duck.
 * | Wadnamura || | Snake, Cloud, Crow.
 * | Mulga tree || | Emu.
 * | Bull-frog. || | Rat.
 * | Lizard || | Wallaby.
 * }
 * rowspan=8 | Matteri || rowspan=8  |  ||  | Eagle-hawk ||  | Red ochre, Musk duck, and Crow.
 * | Cormorant || | Rat and Red ochre.
 * | Iguana || | Wallaby.
 * | Dog || | Musk duck.
 * | Wadnamura || | Snake, Cloud, Crow.
 * | Mulga tree || | Emu.
 * | Bull-frog. || | Rat.
 * | Lizard || | Wallaby.
 * }
 * | Mulga tree || | Emu.
 * | Bull-frog. || | Rat.
 * | Lizard || | Wallaby.
 * }
 * | Lizard || | Wallaby.
 * }
 * }

This table is evidently imperfect. According to the almost universal rule, which obtains also with the Yendakarangu, that sisters arc exchanged as wives, there should be reciprocity between the totems in their marriages. In the list this is the case as to some of each class, and therefore one is fairly justified in believing that it is so with the others. On this view I have added those totems which have been omitted, but which appear to be reciprocal and which are in italics to distinguish them.

Professor Spencer has been so good as to point out to me that in the northern part of the Urabunna they were very emphatic in stating that a man of one totem could only marry a woman of a certain totem of the other class. The marriages of that tribe are given as follows :—