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ceremony when he is known as a ngu-tcha. He is a malari 

 during the time that tlie belly-cuts are healing, and a chahna 

 onwards, the fully-developed man. A female is a nai-ili when 

 tbe breasts first begin to protrude, a gatcliir at fully developed 

 puberty (corresponding to the clialma stage of the males), a 

 kau-el before bearing a child, and balgari after having borne 

 children. 



The progressive titular changes in an individual's life in the 

 Cairns District are here given both in the Yidinji (Y) and 

 Kungganji (K) languages : — 



When an infant of either sex walks and gives up suckling it is 

 a ka-winji (YK), the sexes being distinguished from this time 

 onwards — 



Female — kum-ba (YK) from completion of kawinji .stage up to 

 close upon puberty ; yabbnr (YK) at puberty, when she tnay 

 have shoulder-scats inflicted ; and tarkanji (YK) when her 

 first baby appears upon the scene. She then passes 

 gradually into the maitin (K), or tar-anki (Y) stage 

 apparently expressive of the climacteric. 



Male — wang-ar-re (YK) from completion of kawinji to puberty ; 

 wur-kun (YK) at puberty, when he undergoes initiation 

 and receives the transverse cuts (mo-in, moingga, or war- 

 dir) between the navel and breast. He is then spoken of 

 as a manda-kanjanji (YK) when his first child begins to 

 walk about; nganda (YK) if his children are still all 

 young ; bi-nnrla when the latter are all old ; and wallo-buri 

 when he is very old, indeed to express the disappearance in 

 great measure of the body-scars. 



The Cooktown District clima-nyms. from the lower to the 

 higher grades, are waral, kabir, ngando, and kamba-kamba for 

 the females, with diran, yerka, bama, and dirainggur for the 

 males. 



Those for the Princess Charlotte Bay District have already 

 been detailed when dealing with the local initiation cere- 

 monies^^. 



Amongst the Kundara, with whom, as 1 have alread}' men- 

 tioned the Koko-minni of the Middle Palmt-r District coiner into 



»8 Roth— Bull. 12 -Sect. 6. 



