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spirit. called Ukuk), und fünf Tage lang werden Kleider aus Palm- 

 blättern getragen (s. Reade). 



Nachdem dem als Tumbah (oder Turlurra) bezeichneten 

 Knaben (der, unter der Verwandtschaft oder Kengoojah, in Muck- 

 warra und Keelpara getheilten Stämme der Weyneubulkoo-Sprache 

 am Darling) der Zahn ausgeschlagen, folgt auf das Bluttrinken 

 (oder Carndurra) das Räuchern unter dem, Windoo genannten, 

 Reisighaufen (s. Bonney). Bei den Mauhes werden die Mädchen 

 geräuchert (zur Pubertätszeit). Die Bakuba schlagen bei der Puber- 

 täts-Ceremonie zwei obere Zähne aus (während ihre Nachbarn 

 dieselben feilen). 



The ceremonies [in grosseren oder kleineren Mysterien der Klassicität] 

 may be of two kinds: — either the füll ceremonial, called Bunan, or the abbre- 

 viated ceremonial, called Kädja-walung. The ceremonies are also spoken of 

 generally in either case as Kuringal. The difference between these ceremonies 

 is partly that the Bunan lasts three or four days, while the Kädja-walung lasts 

 about half that time, and partly that in the latter not only are the proceedings 

 abbreviated, but that some which belong to the Bunan are omitted. For 

 instance, the Bunan is hcld in a carefully prepared ground, where every stick or 

 stone has been carefully removed, and the earth has been thrown up in a circular 

 mound about the place of ceremony. The novices are placed on this mound in 

 front of fierce fires, and are kept there sufficiently long to fully test their power 

 of endurance. Each novice holds upright in front of himself his mother's „yam- 

 stick", on which are hung the belt of manhood and the other articles of attire 

 with which he is by-and-by to be invested. It is inside this circular mound that 

 many of the preliminary dances, at which it is lawful for the women and children 

 to be present, take place. A cleared path leads from the great Bunan for some 

 distance through the bush to a retired spot where is the small Bunan, enclosed 

 by boughs, in which the tooth is knocked out. The women are sent away, 

 under the charge of some old man, from the great Bunan before the procession 

 of the initiated and of the novices takes place along the cleared path. 



The difference between the greater and the lesser Kuringal is mainly in 

 the presence or absence of the circular mound, of the cleared path of the small 

 Bunan, and in the more or less tended and developed character of the ceremonies. 



I shall now describe the proceedings as carried on at the lesser ceremonies 

 of the coast tribes. On the arrival of a contingent, led by the messenger who 

 summoned it. its women and children halt at a distance, and a peculiar long- 



