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for these gifts the sister of the graduate presents the bud- 

 dimggan with a complete set of a woman's regalia. The 

 youth now goes back with the single men to their camp, 

 and the women stroll away to theirs. In the evening a 

 corroboree is held in celebration of the youth's release from 

 the opossum waned. 



Some months after the above ceremony, or it may be the 

 best part of a year, or longer than that, if the graduate is 

 young, he is again taken charge of by the elders of the 

 tribe, and another animal is added to those which he can 

 hunt and eat. As the procedure connected with each 

 ceremony is somewhat similar, I shall very briefly describe 

 the position of the scars, or mumbir, on the different parts 

 of the body. 



The next waited on the list is the giriua or iguana. For 

 the full-grown male animal, the graduate is cut, vertically, 

 on the left shoulder, a little below his first marks for the 

 opossum. Alter a while his right shoulder is similarly 

 branded for the female or young iguana, and when he has 

 recovered from its effects, he is inarched to the women's 

 camp, as on the first occasion, and is shown to his relatives. 

 He has now a second tier of mitmbir, or marks extending 

 across the back, and is received with the usual congratu- 

 lations. The songs and dances connected with the iguana, 

 both in the bush and at the women's camp, are different to 

 the opossum ceremony. No bough-yard is erected on this 

 occasion, nor are any presents given by the buddunggan. 



After a considerable time the young man is allowed to 

 eat the full-grown male emu, ngurun, being painted and 

 greased as on other occasions, but the old men continue 

 singing special chants throughout the night. There is a 

 superstition that the emu never sleeps at night, because if 

 it did all the aborigines would die. Therefore, in discharg- 

 ing a man from this ivanal, everybody in the camp keeps 



