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with respect to the findings presented here, it must have moved in from the west, because of
the replacement of Paljeri. Thus, when Tjarurru replaces Paljeri, Milangka replaces Karimarra.
Indeed, Wiluna is at the border of Zones 1 Burgulu—Kan‘rnarra-Paljeri-Punmgu and 4
Karimarra-Milangka-Panaka-Purungu. At Wiluna, Tjarurru replaces Paljeri and Milangka
replaces Karimarra of Zone 1; and Panaka is identical to Zone 4 and replaces Burgulu of Zone
1. Wiluna may, therefore, be integrated easily into my hypothesis of the valeur “Paljeri -->
Milangka : Tjarurru”.

Panaka should, according to the system, never many Milangka or Burgulu. Here I return
to the case of the Yulbaridya. This group is the only one where Panaka and Burgulu meet,
and the relation between these two sections is one of filiation between mother and child.
How can we interpret this phenomenon? I have shown that, along the coast and to the limits
of the desert, Paljeri is either replaced by Milangka or by Tjarurru. We have also seen that
Zone 4, which includes the Mardu for example, follows a different principle because Burgulu,
Paljeri, Tjarurru and Yiparrka are absent, and Milangka may not replace Paljeri and Burgulu
simultaneously. In order to construct the area of extension [Paljeri --> Milangka 2 Tjarurru], I
opted for the substitution Milangka --> Paljeri, leaving aside the problem of Burgulu. I now
return to Burgulu in relation to the Pintupi case.

IV.'b The Pintupi, or the transitianfiam four sections to eight subsections

The Pintupi, northern neighbours of the Ngaatjatjarra, have an eight—subsection system,
but this was not always the case. According to Fry 1934, the Pintupi in 1932 still used a four-
section system with five terms, which was beginning to accommodate itself to the subsection
system of their eastern neighbours, the Luritja.“ These 5 sections were arranged as follows:

Taruru = Panaka / Iparka
Purukula = Purunga

The similarities between the Pintupi system and other section systems are undeniable: the
Pintupi section names Tararu and Iparka, which we found in the south-west and south, and
Purunga Purungu and Panaka, which we have seen in the Pilbara systems. Pumkula, which
is sometimes also found as Purrukulu, corresponds to the category Burgulu found principally
in the south-west and among the Yulbaridya, north-west of the Pintupi.

Myers 1986: 1 83 notes that, according to the Pintupi, their system was brought to them
from the north by mythological creative beings known as Tingarri. Most probably it is the
eight—subsection system they were talking about, although it may recall earlier mechanisms
relating to the arrival of the four-section system as well. With the adoption of the new system,
the Pintupi introduced new section names which are marked by gender, but in which it is still
possible to find some of the categories discussed above McConvell 1985a:

31 In fact, they seem to have been Ngalia people, who today regard themselves as Ngalia Warlpiri.