An analogous state of things is reported to have obtained among the Wurunjerri (Victoria): "The right to hunt and to procure food in any particular tract of the country belonged to the group of people born there, and could not be infringed by others without permission."[370] In the territory of the same tribe there was a stone-quarry, the material of which was very valuable to the natives. The quarry was the property of a group of people living on the spot; the head of this group had special rights in connection with it. "It was Billi-billeri, the head of the family, whose country included the quarry, who lived on it, and took care of it for the whole of the Wurunjerri community."[371] This statement appears to me very important, as it shows how rights of possession might belong to a local group and centre in the headman of this group. This statement suffices to reconcile the apparent contradiction between individual claims to a country and group claims. [370] Howitt, _Nat. Tr._, p. 311. [371] _Ibid._ The local groups amongst the Bangerang, who lived at the junction of the Murray and Goulburn Rivers, seem to have been more numerous, owing, perhaps, to the easiness of food supply on the banks of two fishy rivers.[372] The tribe was divided in two exogamous moieties,[373] and the land "was parcelled out between these two sub-tribes."[374] Each respectively lived in a body, although moving sometimes from place to place. Curr speaks of their head-quarters in places abounding with fish.[375] One of the sections numbered about 150, the other somewhat less. These two "sub-tribes" or moieties constituted, therefore, rather numerous local groups. The "sub-tribes" of the kindred tribes mentioned by Curr seem also to have been numerous,[376] and to have lived each in a body,[377] so that they would be, according to our terminology, numerous local groups. Curr speaks also of individual property in land, but this seems to have had only a purely fictitious meaning, having nothing to do with any real right.[378] Private property in other things (_e. g._ fishing weirs, etc.) was known.[379] [372] Curr, _Recollections_, pp. 231, 240. [373] Local exogamous moieties, not phratries! [374] Curr, _Recollections_, p. 243. [375] _Ibid._, p. 231. [376] _Ibid._, p. 234. [377] It is never said clearly; but compare the story told in XIII, of the meeting of two tribes, and _passim_ through the work, p. 174 and others. [378] _Ibid._, pp. 243, 244. [379] _Ibid._, p. 243.