280 R. H. MATHEWS AND M. M. EVERITT. 



One of the songs sung in the morning runs thus: — 

 A-jil-ba-ra/-ra rnur'-ra-ga-dyarh 

 Jil-ba-ra'-ra mur'-ra-ga-dyarh 

 A-j il-ba-ra'-ra mur'-ra-ga-dyarh 

 Yun'-nang-nga, jin-ya ing-a. 

 Jil-ba-ra/-ra ! 



The last syllable is long and high. The following is one of the 

 songs for the evening : — 



Wam-ba'-oon nee-nga-la/ jir-ran' 



Wam-ba'-oon nee-nga-la' jir-ran' din-ngee 



Mil-war-roo wln-gow'-ra 



Wam-ba'-oon nee-nga-la, 

 the last syllable being very prolonged. Our informants could not 

 give us any meaning of the words of these songs, except that 

 "jirran din-ngee " means " sun going down." 



We will now resume the narrative at the point where the 

 novices were shown the bullroarer (mooroonga). Men and boys 

 now start for the women's camp, and on their way thither the 

 former go into a waterhole or creek and wash the black paint off 

 their bodies. On arrival at their destination, the novices are taken 

 to a bough enclosure called watyoor, where they are exhibited to 

 their mothers with certain formalities, after which they are con- 

 ducted to a camp by themselves, not far from the single men's 

 quarters. 



The foregoing is a very brief outline of the initiation ceremonies, 

 the reader being referred for fuller details to the article on the 

 Bunan, written by one of us in 1896. 1 A novice who has been 

 admitted to the status of manhood by means of the Kudsha is 

 required to attend the next Bunau which takes place among his 

 people, for the purpose of receiving further instruction, and being 

 advanced to a higher degree. It is necessary that each neophyte 

 must participate in three or more inaugural ceremonies before he 

 is fully qualified to take his place as a man of the tribe. 



1 E. H. Mathews, " The Bunan Ceremony of New South Wales " — 

 American Anthropologist, (Washington) Vol. ix , pp. 327 - 344, plate vi. 



