Every tribe in Australia was divided into a number of small social groups, but for marriage purposes, into two main groups sometimes called marriage moieties. Let's call them A and B.
People from group A could not marry people from the same group. In other words they married people from group B. However each marriage moiety was subdivided into a number of smaller divisions. Let's call them A1, A2, A3, A4 and B1,B2,B3 and B4. Again, people who belonged to the same moiety or sub-section, could not marry each other.
The Aborigines identified these groups by totemic names based on Dreamtime creation beliefs. For example one group may have been black swan pe
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