Note 586 — Chapter VI · [168] DISCUSSION OF KINSHIP

This refers to the whole Central and North Central area. Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., p. 330. In a short note of recent date (Athenæum, Nov. 4, 1911, p. 562), we read that Prof. B. Spencer has found the same absence of physiological knowledge in the tribes living North-West of the "Northern Tribes" (from Roper River to Port Darwin). According to his opinion this belief obtains from the South Coast of Australia over a broad belt right through the Centre to the North Coast. (Ibid.)