The Bora of the Kamilaroi Tribe*. 145 



Three yards farther on than the emu, on the opposite side of 

 the track, was the Goomee or Baiarnai's tire. The loose earth had 

 been heaped up about a foot high like a large ant-hill, on the top 

 of which the tire was lighted. Around this heap there was a 

 clear space about thirty feet in diameter, which was used by the 

 men as a place of assembly when they wished to deliberate upon 

 matters of tribal concern, as well as on the occasion of the arrival 

 of other tribes. 



Eighteen yards beyond the Goomee, on the same side, parallel 

 with the track, a codfish nine feet long and three feet eight inches 

 across the body was outlined by a nick in the soil, its head 

 being towards the goomee. This drawing has a characteristic 

 resemblance to some of the figures of fish which I have seen 

 carved on rocks* on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. 



A little farther on the same side as the pi'eceding was the 

 carving of a large snake, representing the Currea, a fabulous 

 monster inhabiting lagoons and other sheets of water. This 

 animal was lying parallel with the track, with its head towards 

 the larger ring ; its length was thirty -nine feet, and its greatest 

 width about a foot. 



On the other side of the track and parallel with it, opposite 

 the last figure were two death adders formed of raised earth, 

 their heads and tails being together, the former in the direction of 

 the large ring. The length of each was a little over sixteen feet. 



About fifteen yards farther on, on the same side, were two 

 other figures of death adders, also formed of raised earth, with 

 their heads in the same direction, one being nine feet long, the 

 other ten feet six inches. 



Opposite to the last two figures was a good representation of a 

 scrub turkey's nest composed of sticks, leaves, and dirt scraped 

 into a heap near the butt of a tree. 



Ten yards farther on than the turkey's nest, or 215 yards from 

 the large ring, near the right side of the track, was the skin of a 

 porcupine filled with sand, having some of the loose soil piled 

 around its feet, leaving the back exposed, a very good representa- 

 tion of the animal as found in the bush. 



* " Rock Pictures of the Australian Aborigines," Proc. Roy. Geog\ Soc. Aust. (Q.), xi., 

 104-105, plate ii., fig-. 13. 



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