. Across Australia . the Purula and Kumara people were stored. It was madeof four upright posts with boughs on the top, form-ing a kind of table on which the Churinga werelaid, hidden from view by a thick layer of leafy Churinga of the Panunga and Bukhara were storedon a platform in a mulga tree on a hill right at thesouth end. Close to the Kumara and Purula store a little wurley,or bush shelter, was built for us, and in this we spent ourdays, and often our nights also, during the progress of theEngwura. It was enclosed on three sides, the southernbeing open so that we commanded a ge
. Across Australia . the Purula and Kumara people were stored. It was madeof four upright posts with boughs on the top, form-ing a kind of table on which the Churinga werelaid, hidden from view by a thick layer of leafy Churinga of the Panunga and Bukhara were storedon a platform in a mulga tree on a hill right at thesouth end. Close to the Kumara and Purula store a little wurley,or bush shelter, was built for us, and in this we spent ourdays, and often our nights also, during the progress of theEngwura. It was enclosed on three sides, the southernbeing open so that we commanded a general view of theParra and ceremonial ground, over which we wanderedquite unheeded by the natives. We may say here that one of us had been for longrecognised by the natives as a member of the AliceSprings group of witchetty grubs, to which totem, as hisyounger tribal brother, the other of us was also regardedas belonging. The latter was only one of the commonorder, but the former was supposed to be the re-incarnation.
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