150 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Muraniura, W'adlulana, cuming once to this place on Salt Creek, saw many 

 tributary creeks from various directions joioing. the main channel. In this 

 conformation he saw a resemblance to the converging branches of a Wodika 

 bush. Salt Creek is, there, \-ery bogg}-, and the white band indicates where it 

 can be crossed. 



278. WORANTIRRANI (Wonkanguru Tribe). To the high bank. The 

 white head of the Toa represents S.alt Creek where it makes a sharp bend, and 

 the red margin dencites a high bank of that colour formed at the bend. The 

 eye spot denotes a waterhole, also with red banks. Named by the Muramura, 

 Turuturungamiri. 



279. PALYANGANIMINIKANI (Diari Tribe). To the place of gum. 

 So named because when the Muramura, Kahuvorankana, came here he found 

 much edible gum (palyangani) on the trees. To ensure a continuance of the 

 su])plv he killed a fat opossum, heated a piece of stone, and climbed a tree. 

 Holding the opossum fat against the heated stone, he sang a song of invoca- 

 tion, and let the fat run down the trunk of the tree. As the fat runs down, so 

 the ^weet gum shall ooze out of the tree. This ceremony is still performed, 

 and in reference thereto a ])iece of stone is affl.xed to the Toa. 



280. WADLAYERKINANI (Diari Tribe). To the burnt mill-stone. 

 So cajled because theMuramura, Kuruljuruna, hid his mill-stone at this place. 

 The wurley in which it was hidden caught fire, and the mill-stone was broken 

 by the heat. Fixed to the head of the Toa is a piece of a mill-stone, and the 

 part below represents the plain on which the Muramura camped. The red 

 and yellow bands denote watercourses with lianks of these colours. 



281. PARUMARDANI (Diari Tribe). To the "fish-stone." The white 

 jiart of the head of the Toa denotes a flat with red margins, where the Mura- 

 mura, Pintanganina, discovered a kind of glassy stone (gypsum), a piece 

 of which is affixed. According to the legend the Muramura used such stones 

 as charms for fisli, and, cjn that account, they serve at the present time as 

 articles of barter amongst the natives of the district. 



282. BURKUNDRANUNI. Details not known. 



283. MANDRAMANDAMI (Kuyani Tribe). To the belt. The Toa 

 represents a stony hill from which stones crop out in the form of a girdle. 

 Coming, once, to this place the Muramura, Papapapana, noticed the confor- 

 mation of the hill, and said to himself, "these projecting stones look like a belt 

 round the body." The red ring encircling the knob rejjresents the hill and 

 the belt. 



