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covered with pajDer-bark and ashes,* and the sufferer, who 

 usually faints during the operation, is led away to the bush 

 for about three weeks. Upon his return to camp he shows 

 the operated part first to his mother, and then to the girl 

 who has been selected as his vv'ife ; these scar their heads with 

 a pointed yam-stick. The excessive degree of excitement and 

 fear apparently makes the lad practically unconscious to pain, 

 and after the event he is usually quite oblivious to what has 

 happened. 



The detached prepuce ( garijet hdrre ) is held against the 

 bellies of those who have been present at the operation, then 

 placed in a small dilly-bag (garad ), and worn round the neck 

 of the operator until the wound has healed, when it is thrown 

 into the fire. The cutting-flake used for the operation is em- 

 bedded at one end in the wax of wild bees, which is heated 

 and moulded round a bamboo. Into the groove thus pro- 

 duced the stone is thrust, and firmly embedded by squeezing 

 the w^ax with the hand. 



Although the Larrekiyas do not circumcise, yet when a 

 performance of this nature is about to take place amongst 

 the Wogaits, invitations to be present are sent to the former 

 tribe, and the members of the two hold a joint corrobboree. 



The following are some of the chants of this joint corrob- 

 boree : — 



1. Narraya injala, bannaya injala, bannaiyaka injaia 



bana; injala bannaiyaka injala, bannaya injalo 

 bana. 



2. Narraya kaninba, larrambana kanimba, larranbar- 



raya kaninba, larrambana kanimba. 



3. Anna yan na na ranga bana na ya ni ba, en kara 



bana, kara gan dome, di di di di. 



The corresponding accompaniment that is b^own into the 

 wooden trumpet or kanhi of the Wogaits, sounds, in the first 

 chant, like : — 



Didnodiddo diduadu didnadiddo diduadu - - 



------ didnarib ; 



in the second : — 



Didjuadeldo, didjuadeldo didjnadelrip; 



and in the third : — 



Tid ja ru du, tid ja ru du, tid ja ru du 



None of the north-western coastal tribes cited practise the 

 rite of sub-incision, but it is well known that the tribes border- 



♦ a. Kniit l)«hl : Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., vol, xix., 1895, 

 p. 122. 



