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game, but neither the words nor principles could be ren- 
dered intelligible to me; so, again, the late Mr. Wyndham, 
the first settler on the island in the early eighties, told me 
that he found it played by the children, but that he could 
never make head or tail of it. At Cape Bedford, the small 
girls often play at the preparation and cooking of yams and - 
other vegetables, mimicking in the process all the actions of 
their elders. 
(5) Dolls for the little girls on the lower Tully River are 
made from a forked stick. or out of a lawyer-cane (Calamus). 
The former (Pl. I., 6) represents the child’s legs, which can 
thus be fixed on to the neck, to indicate a mother carrying 
her baby with its lower limbs dangling over the shoulders. 
The latter is split at one extremity, each split half being 
bent and kinked so as to form a “ knee”; by pressure from 
above, these jointed legs can thus be made to assume dif- 
ferent and equally ridiculous positions (Pl. I., 7). There 
is no more definiteness about these dolls—no heads, arms, 
ornamentation, or dress. They are called kuchara, a Mal- 
lanpara term sometimes, though rarely, applied to a little 
infant. The parents generally make miniature dilly-bags 
for their children to carry these dolls in. At Cape Bedford, 
forked sticks similarly constitute girls’ dolls. In the Cairns 
district I have seen these playthings formed of pieces of bark 
wrapped up in grass, &c. On Keppel Island I observed 
girls and women nursing dolls in their arms like babies. 
These dolls, in the form of cones, varied in length (up to 15 
inches) and thickness, were coloured with red ochre, and 
named “ kamma”’ after the grass-tree (Xanthorrhea) from 
out of the butt of which they were cut (Pl. I., 8). Mr. 
Wyndham also noticed these toys when he first went there. 
As a result of a conversation which I held with two or three 
of the more intelligent of the women, I have good ground 
for believing that these cones are also intended as charms 
for begetting fine, strong children. [Are they of a phallic 
nature?| I met with several of these articles mixed up with 
the bones and débris in one of the shelter-caves in the North 
(Keppel) Island. 
(c) “ Granny’ is a game played by boys as well as girls 
on the lower Tully River, in mimicry of the sounds pro- 
duced on being spanked by the old lady in question for 
being naughty. Putting the one hand high up into the 
opposite arm-pit, they sharply smack the elbow of the free 
arm on to the flank, calling out as they do “ Papi,” “ Papi”’ 
(equivalent to “ Granny,” “ Granny ”’). 
