Aboriginal+Skin+Groups

The Aboriginal system of skin groups is a way in which some Aboriginal societies order themselves into kinship groups and dictates how each member of the society conducts themselves eg. who can marry whom. Members of groups are usually blood relations, however even those from outside these blood relations are allocated a skin group. The classifications groups vary between different Aboriginal tribes with some having only four groups and some up to sixteen. These groups are also sometimes broken up between males and females.
 * Aboriginal Skin Groups**

The skin groups system of organizing societies is thought to have begun in the Daly River area of The Northern Territory, but spread throughout Central, Western and Northern Australia.