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At present the remains of a man, father of "Kodji- 

 Kodjalla," who was killed by lightning, lies on the platform 

 of boughs, awaiting the time when his bones shall be bleached. 



The Ngarrinyind and Woonumbulla tribes treat their 

 dead in a similar way, except that their bones are finally 

 buried in an ant hill, where they are destroyed by the white 

 ants. 



Fear of the Ngarrinyind. 



When a man is killed by an enemy the slayer flees to a 

 remote district of his own tribe to escape retributive justice. 

 The fear of the Wororra is that he will be speared by a 

 Ngarrinyind when out hunting alone, and, in fact, in each 

 recently reported case of death by viole»ce, except that of 

 Kodji-Kodjalla's father just mentioned, it was alleged that 

 he was speared by a man of this tribe. 



Cave Paintings. 



The most striking feature of this cave at Arnu is the 

 collection of rock paintings it contains. The cave is 

 merely a long, sheltered depression beneath a ledge of rock. 

 It is about 30 feet in width, 6 feet in depth, with a deeper 

 niche in the centre where the bones are cast,' and about 6 feet 

 in height. The overhanging ledge is about 30 feet in length 

 by about 6 feet in width. It is almost entirely covered by a 

 large painting of an alligator, very strikingly outlined in red 

 and yellow ochre and charcoal, the body being blocked in 

 with paint made from white clay. On the wall of the cave is 

 a second, smaller painting of an alligator, similar in design. 

 This latter was executed by one of the men who 

 accompanied me to the cave. All the other paintings, I was 

 told, have been there for many years, and it would seem as if 

 only at long intervals one man adds a painting to the 

 collection. 



Other painting's on the walls represent two kangaroos, 

 in side view, but with both eyes shown on the one side of the 

 head; several figures unintelligible to me; various kinds of 

 edible roots, and three paintings of a human form, concerning 

 which see "Religious Beliefs." 



On a ledge in the cave were several polished stones of 

 more or less oval shape, and about the size of a man's fist, 

 with one large, flat, curved stone of about a foot in length. 

 I picked up one of the smaller stones, and immediately noticed 

 that the two men who were with me at the time became 

 embarrassed and looked displeased. Replacing the stone, 

 I asked what it was. After some hesitation I was told that 

 the smaller stones represented the kidneys of an alligator, 

 while the large, curved stone represented the alligator's 

 jawbone. 

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