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204. PUNTUWORANI (Diari Tribe). To the wooden needle. So named 

 because, here, the Muramura, Tupuworana, once killed an animal, took out its 

 entrails, and sewed up the opening with a wooden awl. The Toa represents 

 the awl. 



205. Name and details not known. 



206. WIMAWALPAWORANANI (Diari Tribe). To the abandoned 

 place of in\ocatinn. The Toa represents an open space where, once, the Mura- 

 mura, Darana, taug;ht his attendants invocations to the Mura, and when he had 

 finished he left the place. 



207. TJUTJUMILKINI (Diari Tribe). To the snake's eyes. The red 

 ground of the stem of the Toa represents a plain where the female Muramura, 

 Ngattani, is said to have once seen a snake (sinuous yellow band) which stared 

 at her with its two eyes. Consequently the head of the Toa is intended to 

 represent that of the snake, with its two eyes shown as red circles with black 

 centres. 



208. PILTIRANI (Diari Tribe). To the sjilinters of wood. The top of 

 the Toa, to which sjilinters of wood are attached, represents a plain traversed 

 by watercourses (red stripes). Here the Muramura, Pitikipana, fought with 

 other Muramuras and, when the fight was finished, many splinters from their 

 weapons lay around. 



209. MANAWILPARAMARANI (Wonkanguru Tribe). Meaning, "to 

 open the mouth wide as in yawning." The Muramura. Wadlulana, once stopped 

 with his attendants on a plain (represented white on the Toa) : he became ill 

 and died, and while dying he opened his mouth wide like one who yawns. The 

 head of the Toa represents the trunk oi a tree broken by the wind in such a 

 way that two projecting points were left as if they were gaping. The yellow 

 spots indicate bushes. 



210. KARLAYERINI. To the rushes. The Toa represents a plain 

 overgrown with these plants. The yellow spots denote clumps of rushes, and 

 a bunch of them is affixed to the head. 



211. MARDAKUPARUWULUNI (Diari Tribe). To the two pounding 

 stones. The Tna represents Lake (iregory, the red colour denoting an island 

 on which are two mound-shaped hills. On this island the two female Mura- 

 muras, Ngardutjel])ani and \Vata]iajiri, had their camp. The former had two 

 fine ])ounding stones which the latter wished tn take from her. A fight ensued, 

 and in the struggle the two stones fell from Ngardutjelpani's hands. From 

 these stones the two hills are said to have arisen. 



