. Across Australia . the decorations ofthe performers were concerned, they were practicallyidentical with those of the TjingiUi and the Warramunga,they differed in detail in regard to the actual is true of the various tribes, and without previouslyknowing whether any particular ceremony that youchanced to be watching belonged to the Arunta, Kaitish,Warramunga, TjingiUi, or Umbaia tribe, the method ofperformance would reveal the fact at once. We went onto their ceremonial ground, which was some distanceaway from the main camp, just over the brow of aslight rise, so that the per
. Across Australia . the decorations ofthe performers were concerned, they were practicallyidentical with those of the TjingiUi and the Warramunga,they differed in detail in regard to the actual is true of the various tribes, and without previouslyknowing whether any particular ceremony that youchanced to be watching belonged to the Arunta, Kaitish,Warramunga, TjingiUi, or Umbaia tribe, the method ofperformance would reveal the fact at once. We went onto their ceremonial ground, which was some distanceaway from the main camp, just over the brow of aslight rise, so that the performers, although the scrub wasthin, could not be seen by the women and children in themain camp. The ceremonies were connected with twolizard totems, a fly, a wallaby, a little bird and a snaketotem. A space, measuring about thirty feet in length byfive or six in width, was cleared of grass and debris so asto form a definite ceremonial ground such as we had notseen in other tribes. At one end of this the performers. li;^. jjd. iF,:;i> KMi;;- (i\ im. i I. k i, NK i\ I \ I ckirxn I I ki.\M\ I I i\\K( I Kl. Willi IIII-: I I \-, ll/\k|i, \\|i U \l I \I1V ^, IMKAIA I kikl ,
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