300 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
B'aiami thought it best not to inform the women and uniniti¬ 
ated regarding the change in initiation, but to have them be¬ 
lieve that Dhuramoolan still came for the youths. 
Dhuramoolan had a wife, Moonibear, and she is repre¬ 
sented in the ceremony by a small bull-roarer, which is heard 
in the camp at night by the women, who> know its- peculiar 
sound. 
The ceremony is the enacting of the story and other similar 
ones. The ground is sacred and has Baiami’s image on the 
trees and ground. A new name is given the boys, which is 
known only to themselves and the initiated men of the tribe. 1 
In another Australian initiation, the ceremony falls into 
parts: 
1. The procession, which falls into “stages,” and perform¬ 
ances accompanying it. They perform pantomimic represen¬ 
tations, some to amuse, some to instruct, and some to terrify. 
2. The magic camp is formed where the knocking out of the 
tooth is done, where a constant succession of ceremonies of 
pantomimic representations, miagic dances, and “inverted 
speech” (i. e., speech where the words convey the opposite of 
the usual meaning) continue until morning. 
3. The ceremonial performances. —Hear the magic fire the 
youths are placed, each with his feet in a pair of holes. The 
leader gives a signal and the men who are kneeling by the: fire 
raise each his piece of bark and bring it down with a loud re¬ 
port, and at the same time he and the others surge away from 
his end of the row, making a rumbling sound, in imitation of 
the surf breaking upon and rushing up the shore; the other 
end man now in his turn strikes the ground, and he and all 
the mien surge back with a similar deep sound. This is in¬ 
tended to represent the thunder from the mountains rolling 
back the sound to the sea,. When this, has gone on rhythmi¬ 
cally for some time, the men begin an excited dance, wdiile the 
old man whose office it is to knock out the teeth performs that 
ceremony. 
l R. H. Matthews, “The Burbling of the Wiradthuri Tribes.” Journal 
of the Anthropological Institute, vol. 25, pp. 295-318. 
