145 Records of the S.A. Museum 



243. BILLITJILPINI (Diari Tribe). Meaning, to knot the net. Here 

 the female jMuraniura, W'ittiniarkani, once invented a new way of making nets 

 by knotting the meshes so that they should not slip if the net were torn. 

 For this reason the Toa bears a piece of net. while the white knob represents 

 a sandhill where the Muramura is supposed to have sat. 



244. BILLIMUNUNI (Diari Tribe). To the billimunu. This is a kind 

 of net bag which is used h\ the women for carr^-ing various kinds of grass 

 with edible seeds, and a piece of such receptacle is attached to the Toa. White 

 denotes Billimunu Lake,- which was so named because the Muramura, Noan- 

 gandrani, there, knitted a billi of that kind. 



245. TJURLUKURANI (Pillatapa Tribe). To the Tjurlu bush plain. 

 The white part of the I'oa represents a plain with red margins, and to the 

 head, twigs of this plant are affixed. The red stripes denote watercourses, 

 and the red spots stones. Named by the Muramura, Papapana, on account 

 of the presence of these bushes. 



246. WARIKATIWALPUNI (Diari Tribe). To the place bestrewn 

 with emu bones. The white knob represents a chalky coloured plain on which 

 the Muramura, Patjalina, found many emu bones; hence he gave this name, 

 and in accordance pieces of emu bone are affixed. 



247. DILADILANI (Ngamani Tribe). To the sandhill overgrown with 

 Dihidila grass. So named because the Muramura, Patjalina, found this kind 

 of grass growing on a small sandhill which projects into Coo])er's Creek. The 

 knob denotes the sandhill, and the reddish dots upon it the grass. The vertical 

 black stripe on the stem represents Cooper's Creek, intci which run tributary 

 watercourses, and the white spots are trees on the banks. 



248. MANGANWORUNI (Wonkanguru Tribe). To the widows. White 

 is the mourning crildur of the natives, white earth being smeared on the 

 head, face, and bud}- during this period. The Toa represents two limestone 

 hills which, by their colour, thus symbolize the mourning. The two Mura- 

 muras, Pildra and Yikaura, having killed each other, their two widows sat 

 together and smeared themselves with white earth in token of mourning, and 

 from them the two hills are believed to ha^•e arisen. 



249. KIRRAWIRINANI (Diari Tribe). To where the boomerang 

 (kirra) entered the earth. The Muramura, Mardumana, once threw his boom- 

 erang from Kirlawilpa with such force that it reached Kunowana (Kanowana) 

 — a distance of 40 miles — and buried itself in the ground. Hence the name. 

 The Muramura ])ainted all his boomerangs with red bands as shown on the 

 Toa. 



