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Purmgu

Panaka Y i -—.———... Panaka
‘fINurrka///'

Karimrra
Tjarurru < I / Ijnrurru
Hi lungka

Figure 9: Mother-child relations IN Kalgoorlie

The example of Kalgoorlie is INterestINg because not only does it produce a difierent
combINation from that found IN Laverton, despite identical bases, but also because it allows
a hypothesis about the establishment of an assimilatory identity of sections, IN contrast to the
Laverton system where there is a relational identity. The followINg short illustration, however,
must be taken as hypothetical, 9' it assumes a collapse of generations, which means
that, at some stage, a man marries a person related to him as spouse but, at the same time, is
structurally IN the section of his mother—IN-law.

Ifirst examINe mother-child relations where there are two cycles, as IN every four-section
system. The question that arises is how it comes about that there is a mother-child relationship
between Purungu and Yiparrka, and between Katimana and Milangka, although, further east,
these sections are identical? ExamININg only these four sections, the relations are as follows:

If a child is Yiparrka, the mother is Panaka and the father Milaugka

If a child is Panaka, the mother is Yiparrka and the father Karimarra
If a child is Karimarra, the mother is Milangka and the father Panaka
If a child is Milangka, the mother is Karimarra and the father Yiparrka

These relations IN the Kalgoorlie system are iepresented IN Figure 10:

MandjINdja Waljen

V l

Tar-aru = Iba rga Tararu = Panaka
Milanga = Burungu Karimarra = Burungu

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Figure 10: Kalgoorlie systems, comprisINg MandjINdja and Waljen arrows are
mother-child relations between the two systems