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HORN EXPEDITION—ANTHROPOLOOY. 
PLATE XII. 
Fig. 11. 
Arunta Tribe, McDonnell Ranges. Warriors on the march ; mid-day 
camp. The boomerangs, stuck into the ground in a row, have 
their ends decorated with transverse liars of red OQhre and white 
earth. Those natives that ai'e not recumbent are sitting, not 
squatting. The flat expanse immediately behind the group is the 
sandy bed of a creek. 
Fig. 12. 
The young girl with “ boomerang legs,” described in text under Section 
Platycnemia and Camptocnemia. 
Fig. 13. 
Arunta Tribe, Crown Point. This unpleasing countenance shows the 
effects of disease, presumed to be syphilis, as manifested by the 
node on the forehead as well as osteitic changes in the breast-lione 
and, probably, within the nose. 
Fig. 14. 
PLATE XIII. 
Band of natives on the march, armed with spears, boomerangs and 
shields, met near Henbury. 
Fig. 15. 
Food and water utensil (Pitchi) used as cradle. 
Fig. 16. 
Group of natives performing an impromptu corrobboree at Crown 
Point. The group is a little out of centre and the legs are obscured 
by the dust raised, but the plate gives some idea of the vigour and 
character of the movements of the performers. 
Fig. 17. 
PLATE XIV. 
Corrobboree at Tempe Downs, Luritcha Tribe. In the foreground is 
the chorus of seated old men, women and children, who are simriim 
and beating time. The performers, who are dancing on a ground 
specially cleared, wear the usual liead-di’esses and body-patterns 
and have bunches of gum leaves attached to their ankles. The 
scraggy-looking trees in the near back-ground are Eucalyptus sp. 
Observe the figure of the child standing to the left of the seated 
group. 
