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song and plaim dance; but, if any decorations at all, they 
would be on the dancers. 
Other corrobborees may each have their own particular 
decoration; thus, as on the Tully, when the programme 
consists of dances pertaining to and imitative of the different 
animals (e.g., flying-fox, cockatoo), portions of these 
animals, especially the heads, are utilised for purposes of 
ornament. I have not heard of any cases where men act 
the part of women, or vice versd. The corrobboree is always 
held at some distance from the main camp, and the same 
ground, cleared of bushes, &c, may be thus utilised for 
months at a time. On the Lower Tully there is no adjoining 
bough-shelter in which the performers can or do prepare 
themselves for the slight ornamentation which they some 
times aspire to. Among the N.W.-Central tribes the sexes, 
in, certain corrobborees, decorate themselves in separate locali- 
ties, the one not being allowed to watch the other; further- 
more, no individual is permitted to watch the “ dressing ”’ 
of either, unless he or she shall have previously witnessed 
that same performance. When, however, the respective 
toilettes are completed, the performers will betake them- 
selves to what may be considered the “ green-room,”’ at all 
events what would correspond to it among more civilised 
communities, whence they emerge or whither they retreat, 
according as their presence is required or not during the 
course of the performance. In the Boulia district this 
green-room consists of a sort of bough-shed formed of long 
saplings placed slantingly so as to rest upon each other at 
their apices; it is known to the Pitta-Pitta as the dakka 
dakka, and to the Maitakudi as jilbi. 
Musical Instruments.—(a) The yikt-yiki (the second y 
being scarcely sounded) is a wind instrument met with in 
the area included by Cooktown, Laura, Palmerville, May- 
town, Byerston, the Bloomfield, Daintree, and Cape Grafton, 
and known by the same name. From what Mr. R. Hislop 
tells me, it is said to have been introduced on to the Bloom- 
field from the Gulf country through the Kokowarra-speak- 
ing blacks, vid the Laura, long before the oidest living 
aboriginal at Wyalla (Bloomfield) was born, and that from 
here the Daintree blacks got their first instrument. The 
yiki-yikis in use on the Bloomfield are simply hollow hard- 
wood saplings, about from 7 to 9 feet long, which taper from 
34 or even 4 inches at the larger distal extremity to about 
2 or 24 inches at the smaller proximal (mouth) end. The 
sap-wood is generally cut off, leaving a shell + to $ inch 
thick, but the only polish it gets is the constant handling. 
