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21. PARLAGUNKUNINANI (Diari Tribe). This T.m represents a 

 liirality at wliicli a .Muramura died fnim the e(]nse<|uences nf his dissijiated 

 life. The white head represents a chalky hill overgrown with bushes (red 

 (lilts). The nehre-coloured vertical band stands ior Cooper's Creek, the 

 banks of which are bordered by .£j-um trees (white dots). The ball suspended 

 by a cord from the head of the T(ia has an anatimiical reference. 



22. PIJARANl (Wonkanguru Tribe). To the ant-hill. .X'anied thus 

 because the Muramura, ( Jodasudana, fnund an ant-hill at Coo|)er's Creek. The 

 k-nob (in the tn]) rejiresents the ant-hill, and the red dots on it the ants. The 

 black cnissbar just lielow the head stands for Cooper's Creek, the black circular 

 [latches fur water-hdles in it, and the white dots indicate i^uni trees. 



2.1 WARINGALKANI (Significance not known). 



24. TJURARINI (Wonkamarla Tribe). Tn the clay-j^an. The slopins^ 

 knol) (in the top means that the clay-]ian lies slanting- in the midst (if the sand- 

 hills, its wliite .^Tdiuid indicating- the chalky colour of the soil. The red band 

 re|iresents a depression in the cla_\--pan where water stands f(ir some time. 

 1 he aljsence (it ddts signifies that no liuslies or trees are present. f)nce, after 

 hea\-y rain, the Muran-iura, I'iriana, finding water here camped fur a tin-ie 

 and went hunting with his servant. 



2.^. PITJILANI (Diari Tribe). To the bark bowl. Here the Mura- 

 mura, Pirnawiirankana, once made such a bowl f(ir himself. The head (if the 

 T(-ia represents the utensil, and the white beldw is a ])lain overgrdwn with 

 bushes and trees (yellow- and white ddts). 



26. BUNURUNI (Wonkanguru Tribe). Tn the cotton bushes. So 

 named Ijiecause the Aluramura, Wutjukana, once found this place overgrown 

 \\-ith these bushes. These arc re])resented b\- the white dots; the vellow bands 

 are indicative of the colour of the soil, and the white bars of strips nf chalkv 

 soil which crdss the ])lain. The two figures of unef|ual size near the top 

 (yellow- centre with white border) on a red g-r(.iund are waterholes stirrounded 

 1)}' red S( 'il. 



27. PARIKARPAMALINANI (Tirari Tribe). To the two water- 

 courses which licnd towards one another. So named liecause the .Muramura, 

 l*atjali)ia, once Udticed how- two branches of (^'ddper's Creek (black) cur\-ed 

 tdwards one audther. One branch comes from Kankuwula, the other from 

 Kindalamanko. .\t Kanatallca the two liranches unite and then again divide 

 into two. The knob of the Toa represents an adjacei-it sandhill, and the red 

 dots are trees growing along the Cooper. 



28. POTOBULUNI (Diari Tribe). Id the white things. Here the 

 >,lur,-imura, Yelkabalubaluna, is said ti.i have decorated himself w-ith white 



