Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 98. —Chnringa, ceremonial objects of stone (in tlie centre) or wood,covered with totemic carvings or (specimen at bottom). Aruntatrilje. Central Australia. seems that the notches and marks made by one native cannot be readby another unaided ; such sticks, accompanied ])y verbal messages,pass from tribe to tribe, and act as credentials to the messengeras well as help to fix the message in his memory. Music is of themost primitive description ; tlie time is beaten with sticks or boome-rangs or with the hands on opossum skins rolled up
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 98. —Chnringa, ceremonial objects of stone (in tlie centre) or wood,covered with totemic carvings or (specimen at bottom). Aruntatrilje. Central Australia. seems that the notches and marks made by one native cannot be readby another unaided ; such sticks, accompanied ])y verbal messages,pass from tribe to tribe, and act as credentials to the messengeras well as help to fix the message in his memory. Music is of themost primitive description ; tlie time is beaten with sticks or boome-rangs or with the hands on opossum skins rolled up or stretchedbetween the knees. Songs and dances are very varied, and passfrom one tribe to another over the whole continent; the per-formers are decorated with paint and birds-down, and variousornaments. Many dances are ceremonial and connected withinitiation ceremonies or ceremonies designed to further the I 2 ^-
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