Sunday, March 8, 2009

Aboriginal Family and Kinship groups


The kinship chart above provides an example for the Pilbara Region Skin Group.
TABLE:

Panaka male marries Karimarra female
children will be Purungu
[A+B = C]
Karimarra male marries Panaka female
children will be Palyirri
[B+A = D]
Palyirri male marries Purungu female
children will be Karimarra
[D+C = B]
Purungu male marries Palyirri female
children will be Panaka
[C+D = A]

No comments:

Post a Comment