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of crocodiles, their route being indicated by the wavy red band. The yellow 

 ■•lots are small stones, and the white spots Ijordering the black band, gum trees 

 surrounding the waterhole. 



65. KALKABURITJINl (Yeluyanti Tribe). To where the sunset 

 faded. So called because on his wanderings the jMuranuira, W'utjukana, once 

 came to a plain just as the sunset faded. The white head represents the plain, 

 whicli was overgrown with bushes (red dots). The yellow ground below, 

 indicates the nature of the soil, and the irregular black band the Kalkaburitji 

 Creek, across which the natives can wade at a shallow place shown by the 

 interrujition. This creek is bordered b\' trees (white dots), and the red dots 

 are bushes. 



66. WITJIKURAWINPANI (Tirari Tribe). To the tracks of the 

 whirlwind in the sand. When the Muramura, Patjalina, once came, hunting, 

 to this place he noticed that a whirlwind had passed over it which had effaced 

 the tracks of animals and had swept together a litter of leaves and grass: 

 hence he named it thus. The white knob represents a sandhill overgrown with 

 bushes (red dots) which adjoins Cooper's Creek. The crescent-shaped, black 

 figure below indicates the creek itself, and the black vertical band a deep 

 waterhole at the foot of the hill, which has been washed Out by a flood. The 

 surrounding borders of while and yellow signify soil of these colours, and 

 the white spots, trees. 



67. WARTJIYAMPUNA (Diari Tribe). To the place of honey-sweet 

 fat. The Toa rei)resents a peculiarly formed sandhill, o^•ergrown with bushes 

 (red and yellow spots), on which the spotted dog of the IMuramura, Pirna- 

 warankana, killed an emu. As the ^luramura ate its fat it seemed to him 

 sweet as honey. Thankful to the dog for killing the emu he gave the above 

 name to both dog and sandhill. 



68. KIRRAWORANAWIRINANI (Diari Tribe). The Toa repre- 

 sents a painted boomerang (kirra) which is sent from camp to camp as an 

 invitation to a tribal emu hunt. On reaching the camp the bearer lays down 

 the kirra and enters without it, thus signifying that he comes without hostile 

 intent. This method of invitation was devised by the Muramura, Marduba- 

 luna, who sent one of his attendants with such a kirra to invite other Mura- 

 muras to a hunt. 



69. KIRRANI (Diari Tribe). To the boomerang (kirra). Here, at 

 Lake Gregory, the two female jMuramuras, Ngardutjelpani and Watapajiri, 

 quarrelled. The former threw a boomerang at the latter, and where it fell 

 on the ground it is said that a crescent- or boomerang-shaped hillock arose 



