HORN EXPEDITION—ANTHROPOLOGY. 
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PLATE XV. 
Pig. 
18. 
Prep.iratiuii for the Atniiuokita Corrobboree, Alice Springs. Venesec¬ 
tion ; tlie operator is manipulating the arm to promote the How of 
blood, wliich is being received into the hollow of a shield. 
Pig. 19. Alp-ma-rokita Corrobboree, Alice Springs. A performer seated in the 
fork of a decorated pole. A very similar pole was used in the 
Atnimokita Corrobboree, the only dillerence being that in the 
latter both forks are of equal length, whereas in the former one is 
longer than the other. 
Fig, 20. Croup preparing for the Alp-ma-rokita Corrobboree, showing various 
styles of head-dresses and body-patterns. A part of the base of 
the chief pole is seen on the left margin of the Plate, and there is 
another at a little distance. Between the two members of the 
group who are most to the left is a food vessel containing red and 
white Portulaca down, with a hand-stone used for grinding the 
ochre. 
PLATE XVI. 
Figs. 21 of this Plate to Fig. 28 of Plate XIX. form a series of repre¬ 
sentations of various phases of the initiatory rites of circumcision 
and subincision, of which the full description will bo found in Mr. 
Gillen’s paper. 
Fig. 21. Operating ground with two rows of spears decorated with gum leaves. 
Fig. 22. Boy to bo circumci.sed (with back turned towards the observer) seated 
with group at one end of the rows of spears. 
Fig. 23. The “Unthippa” dance, in which the lubras strip the leaves from the 
spears. 
PLxiTE XVII. 
Fig. 24. In this place should have appeared a plate properly belonging to this 
series which represents the act of circumcision as it is performed 
amongst the Arunta tribe or, at least, among the Arunta Ilpma 
section. By an error, however, the Plate, representing a group of 
Luritclias posed for this operation at Tempo Downs and described 
in the text, has been substituted for the proper member of the 
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