86 THE BURBUno OK THK WIRADTHURI TRIBES 



The if'xmilm, or huildha-ijtxinatKi, was formed in Home thickly 

 wooded country 425 yards distant, in a northerly direction, and 

 the four earthen heaps composing it were about thirty feet apart, 

 and from fifteen to twenty inches in height. Thero were two 

 inverted stumps of saplings, about two feet out of the ground, 

 erected in a corresponding position to those shown in " Diagram 

 3," Plate XXV., accompanying my first paper on the Burbung.* 

 Beyond the goombo was the usual screen of boughs, known 

 as tfftrecl. The stumps were about the same height and other- 

 wise similar to those formerly described, and were stained with 

 human blood in the same way. 



On proceeding 241 paces along the pathway, tharamhal, 

 from the hoorbnnij towards the ijoinnho, it was found to pass 

 through a rustic archway, formed by pulling together and 

 fastening the tops of a number of saplings naturally growing 

 at that spot, with boughs piled up thickly at each side, leaving 

 a clear passage about three or four feet wide. P>om this point 

 onward to the goombo the surface of the ground on either side 

 of the path was ornamented with the usual youan patterns, 

 interspersed among which were human figures, representations of 

 animals, native weapons, and other objects, which I shall briefly 

 describe presently. Around the outside boundary of the area 

 containing these mystic drawings, a fence of saplings and bushes 

 had been erected to add to the exclusiveness of the place, and 

 also to keep the white man's stock from trampling upon and 

 defacing the artistic labours of the natives. 



Three yards beyond the archway referred to there were cut 

 into the turf the figure of a man and a woman, a little less than 

 life-size, lying side by side, with their genital organs con- 

 spicuously displayed. Not far from this pair was the efiigy of a 

 man formed by stuffing a suit of European attire with grass 

 and leaves. This was propped up to keep it in an erect posture, 

 giving it the appearance of a sentry on the watch. A little 

 further on the outline of an immense snake, called the Wahwee, 

 was cut in the ground. 



At the distance of 130 paces from the archway (or 871 paces 

 from the boorbung), still going towards the goombo, a colossal 

 horizontal representation of Baiaiuai, eight feet six inches long, 

 and five feet ten inches across the chest, was formed by heaping 

 up the loose earth into human shape. The chest, which was 



• Jouin. Anthrop. Inst., London, xxv., 295-318. 



