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79. NGANPANAWIRINANI. To the place of furious anger. The 

 Toa represents a watercourse crossed by rows of trees (white stripes). Here, 

 with uncontrollable rage, the Muramura, Kirlawilina, fought with Jiis uncle. 



80. TAMPANGARAKURATERINANI (Diari Tribe). To where the 

 pelicans lay. This is the name of a lagoon in a swamp where the pelicans 

 breed. So called because the female Muramura, Marumarunu, once came here 

 and found many pelicans' eggs. The lagoon, also, appeared to the Muramura 

 to have the shape of a pelican's foot, which she attributed to the fact that 

 one of these birds had trodden there. Thus the Toa has the shape of a peli- 

 can's foot. 



81. KUTIRANI (Tirari Tribe). To the crooked place. So called be- 

 cause the Muramura, Patjalina, noticed that the part of Cooper's Creek 

 which the Toa represents was very crooked. The white dots are gum trees 

 which stand in the bed of the creek. 



82. NGANTIBURUNANI (Diari Tribe). To where the animal squats. 

 Here the Muramura, Karuwdntirina, once saw two emus squatting and sleep- 

 ing together behind a bush. Jhe Toa represents an emu, the oval swelling 

 at the top end being the head and beak ; the succeeding narrow part denotes the 

 neck, and the vellow dots the ribs. 



(When the emu squats, it rests flat on the ground with the neck stretched 

 straight nut. The Toa represents the bod}- of the bird in this position.) 



83. KIRRATARANANI (Diari Tribe). To the place where the 

 boomerang (kirra ) ascends. The white section of the Toa represents a water- 

 hole with sandy banks (yellow). Here two servants of the Muramura, Dim- 

 piwalakana, threw their boomerangs, which ascended in an unusual way. 



84. TURUKURUNI (Diari Tribe). To the firesticks. So named 

 because once the Muramura.Turipuwulana. made fire here by rubbing pieces 

 of wood together. The pointed projection from the head of the Toa repre- 

 sents a piece of wood so used. The knob denotes a vvaterhole, and the red 

 stri])es rows of trees which cross it. 



85. WOMAMAKUNI (Diari Tribe). To the snake's skeleton. The 

 Toa represents such a skeleton, which was found by the Muramura, Billipil- 

 pana, on a plain. This is traversed by a deep watercourse (longitudinal, wavy, 

 red line) which receives tributary channels on each side, this arrangement sug- 

 gesting the appearance of the back-bone of a snake (woma) with its attached 

 ribs. 



86. MALKAMALKANI (Kuyani Tribe). To the many marks. So 

 named because, here, the female Muramura, Malkamalkani, painted herself 

 with marks similar to those shown on the Toa. 



