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at Madra-yurkuma,'% he slew a number of those sent against 
him. Then taking his tayi under his arm he went to Meri- 
wora.!* The pinya had by this time again collected against 
him. When they began to throw their boomerangs against 
him, he placed the atone in such a manner on his back that 
no weapon could harm him. But he was buried under the 
tayi and was turned into stone. 
Some of our informants say that it was Ngura-tu lu-tu 
luru who named the place of Yidniminka, by saying to the 
men whom he had killed, “ yidni minka (nganamai,”) “ thou 
a hole (shalt be.”’) Others, however, say that it was another 
Mura-mura named Nura-wordu-bununa,® who named this 
place, and about whom the Dieri have the following 
legend :— 
Lecenp 2. 
Nura-wordu-bununa. 
This Mura-mura lived at Lake Hope (Pando), and caught 
rats and mice, which were there in great numbers, for his 
food. Of their skins he made water-bags. One day he saw 
a Mari? in the neighbourhood of his camp, and followed its 
tracks the next day, armed with his spear und boomerang, 
till he found it. When he was preparing to kill it, the 
animal spoke to him, saying, “* Why dost thou come to me as 
to a stranger? Put down thy boomerang and spear.” 
Dome this, he then wrestled with the Mari and strangled 
him, and made a large water-bag of his skin. After a time 
he saw a much larger animal, w hich only showed itself at 
times. “I must have that one,” he thought to himself, and, 
having filled all his water-bags, he carried some over his 
shoulders, and one in each hand. The great bag which he 
had made from the skin of the Mari he put on his head on a 
pad which he made of his hair, the ends of which he tied 
over the top. Being thus prepared, he set out following the 
tracks of the great “animal, further and further away from 
his home, until his water- -bags were emptied one after the 
other. After a time he saw a great animal, but it was not 
the one he was iat and he still went on into a country 
marda yurkuma ” is, in Yaurorka and 
'3 Madra is ‘‘stone.”’ In Dieri ef 
Dieri, “to earry under the arm,.’’ The place is so called because the petri- 
fied men carried their bags (billi) under their arms, after the custom of the 
pinya. 
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46 Nura’’ is ‘tall,’ and ‘‘ wordu” is “short; ’’ “‘ punu”’ is the part 
of a creek where it-enters a lake. In this sense the name means ‘he with 
the short tail at the embouchure,” that is, where the creek enters Lake 
Hope. ™ Mariis a kind of wallabi. 
© Kirka, “ boomerang.” Kalti, ‘‘ spear.” 
