various patterns cut by the tooth of some small marsupial, such 
as Bettongia. Mulga (.4 cacia aneura) seems to be the hardwood 
used. The incised pattern consists, in the great majority of cases 
of a series or groups of concentric circles, half circular or larger 
or smaller arcs of bands made up of sinuous or straight lines or 
rows of dots ; these various elements being usually combined to 
form the whole pattern. Some of the longest of them show 
abundant signs of having been smeared with blood and decorated 
with Porlulaca down, and two or three bear the sinuous outlines 
of a snake incised along the whole length.” On page 77 it is 
mentioned that the stone forms are most frequently of oval 
shape, and on page 80 he says the stone forms are the rarer and 
appear to stand in greater value and importance, though he 
believes their associations were of the same nature, and mentions 
that Mr. Schultze speaks of the markings as being understood 
only by the old man who had charge of the festival (in which they 
were used). Four to five feet appear to be the length of the 
larger of these objects met with in the Horn Expedition, but the 
larger boards of Western Australia are three times that size and 
are only decorated on one side, and the writer has not heard of 
any stone forms existing in Western Australia. The markings 
on the boards are more than mere ornamentation. The numbering 
alongside figure 1, plate 1, denotes the varieties of marking on 
that board ; their names are (1) “ Coondinnie,” (2) " Cooru,” 
(3) “ Walga.” The feathery markings on some of the other 
boards are called “ Courra.” The aboriginals only slightly di- 
vulged their meaning to the writer, but each “ Coondinnie ” 
pattern appears to represent a tribal centre, such as Southern 
Cross (Karrigiban) or Bardoc (Miandra), which has representa- 
tives or delegates at their initiation ceremonies. The Kalgoorlie 
aboriginals to whom the drawings of certain boards (No. 2 to 7) 
were shown by the writer, stated that they could not interpret 
them and said that they were very old and that the men who 
made them must have been dead a very long time, and they 
evidently regarded the designs with much awe. These boards, 
however, belonged to the neighbouring “ Beiloon ” tribes of the 
Kurnalpi district, about 40 miles distant, with whom they did 
not corrobboree. 
The boards are prepared for the corrobboree by being daubed 
with white clay or kaolin, in bold transverse markings and scroll- 
like patterns, and the spaces between these are coloured with 
red ochre. These painted designs are quite independent of the 
incised designs. Figures 2 to 7 represent boards from Kurnalpi ; 
these, excepting No. 2, comprise a set that was found and seized 
by Police-Corporal Bewsher in December, 1893, at a hill il miles 
out north of Kurnalpi, under a mound of earth and scrub, which 
had an east and west direction. This mound was considered by 
him to be only a temporary place of concealment. Close to the 
