All this is rather vague. Why did groups of comrades or of recognised kin take plant and animal names? Why did they forbid intermarriage? What was the origin of the objection to marriage between blood kindred? It does not arise out of ‘moral ideas,’ nor out of ‘wife-capture,’[9] and Herr Cunow speaks neither of ‘sexual taboo,’ nor of ‘sexual jealousy,’ while the theory of ‘personal totems’ become hereditary, or of magical co-operation in totem breeding, is not mentioned; indeed, when Herr Cunow wrote (1894), the magical theory was unborn. The hordes merely developed into groups of comrades or of kin, as such not intermarrying among themselves, and marking themselves for no assigned reason, with plant or animal names: reverence of the totem came later. ‘Still later than the totem association the phratry seems to arise,’ and the phratries are described as allied local totem groups. This is my own opinion, but by ‘local totem group,’ I here mean (as already explained), the original local totem group, with the other totems which had become its elements, through exogamy, and female descent. Herr Cunow, if I follow him, means on the other hand a local totem group of the kind which now results among the Arunta from reckoning descent in the male line. ‘The forbidding of marriage extended beyond the local group, passing into the neighbouring hordes, till at length morality enjoined the obtaining of wives from remoter districts. Hence was developed a come-and-go of marriage between two out of several larger local totems, and these larger local communities are the original types of the Australian phratries. Suppose that the hordes of the Kurnai had gradually developed themselves into local totem groups like those of the Narrinyeri, and ... that it became the rule for the Brataulong to take their wives from their south-western neighbours, the Kulin, and _vice versa_, till the two groups waxed into a great community, and we have the probable development’ (of the ‘phratries’) ‘before us.’ The groups ‘Brataulong’ and ‘Kulin’ would now be a great community of two intermarrying phratries.