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spots the bushes. The black stripes are watercourses from the hill, which 

 run into a waterhole at its foot (black vertical stripe), the banks of which are 

 bordered by gum trees (white spots). 



109. TULATAPANI (Ngamani Tribe). To the stone knife's wound. 

 Named by the Muramura, Pillapilpana, who, at this place, chipped stone 

 knives into shape. In melting resin for making hafts for them he burned his 

 fingers. The white head of the Toa indicates the plain on which the Mura- 

 niura found the sti^ies, pieces of which are inserted into the head. 



110. KIRRATINTINI (Diari Trribe). To the half-finished boomerang. 

 White represents a plain on the Cooper where a certain Muramura was going 

 to make a boomerang, but he did not complete it ; hence the name. The Toa 

 re])resents the unfinished weapon, 



111. KAKURAWORLAKI (Diari Tribe). To where the Kakura 

 bushes wave. The white head of the Toa rc])resents a waterhole, and it bears 

 a sprig of Kakura bush. The Muramura, Warlatana, discovered the hole, and 

 as the wind was blowing the Inishes waved. 



112. PANKAPANKARABURUNI (Wonkanguru Tribe). To the rush 

 plain. .So called because the Ahu-anuira, T'alangopina, once came here and 

 found it overgrown with rushes. The plain is represented by the white oval 

 head, and the rushes by the yellow s]iots and the bunch attached. 



113. PALKALARABURUNI (Tirari Tribe). To the place of Palkara 

 bush. Palkara is a kind of salt-bush which is represented at the top of the 

 Toa. The white part denotes a plain, and the red marks depressions in which 

 water remains for some time. Here, after rain, the natives stay for as long 

 as the water lasts. 



114. PANYIWORDUNI. To the place of the sharply-pointed bone. 

 Here the Muramura, Alardabaluna, found people with such a bone, which is 

 used as an instrument of magic as well as for extracting splinters and thorns 

 from the feet. The white ground of the knob represents the plain on which 

 this happened, and the red spots Pulpuru bushes. A pointed bone is inserted. 



11.^. WULPUWULPUNANI (Wonkanguru Tribe). To the Wulpu 

 plain. Wulpu is a plant that }-iclds a fla.x-like fibre, and a piece of this pre- 

 pared for spinning is inserted into the head of the Toa. The head of the Toa 

 represents a plain overgrown with Wulpu bushes (yellow and white spots) 

 which was disco^■ered and named by the Muramura, Patjalina. 



1 16. PANINKULANI. To the bark bowl. The white knob represents 

 a plain where, once, the fem.ale Muramura, Narimalpirini, gathered seeds, and 

 having no bowl with her, she stripped the bark from a tree and made a recep- 



