{"collection":"aus","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aus/ntna/ntna02.htm","path":"aus/ntna/ntna02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aus/ntna/ntna02.htm","text":"CHAPTER I\nINTRODUCTION 1\nCHAPTER II\nSOCIAL ORGANISATION AND MARRIAGE REGULATIONS 42\nCHAPTER III\nINITIATION CEREMONIES 88\nCHAPTER IV\nTOTEMIC SYSTEMS AND TOTEM GROUPS 177\nCHAPTER V\nSACRED STICKS, BULL-ROARERS, AND CEREMONIAL OBJECTS 210\nCHAPTER VI\nBURIAL AND MOURNING CEREMONIES 228\nCHAPTER VII\nMAGIC AND MEDICINE 257\nCHAPTER VIII\nBELIEFS IN REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF CHILDREN 263\n{p. xvi}\nCHAPTER IX\nTRADITIONS CONCERNING IMBEROMBERA, THE GREAT ANCESTOR, AND ALSO OTHER ANCESTORS OF THE KAKADU NATION 275\nCHAPTER X\nVARIOUS TRADITIONS, CUSTOMS, AND BELIEFS 313\nCHAPTER XI\nFOOD RESTRICTIONS 342\nCHAPTER XII\nWEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS 352\nCHAPTER XIII\nCLOTHING AND ORNAMENT 401\nCHAPTER XIV\nDECORATIVE ART 407\nAPPENDIX 441\nGLOSSARY OF NATIVE TERMS 485\nINDEX 503\n{p. xvii}\nFIGURES\n1.--Open Forest Land near Daly Waters. Typical Central Australian Country 3\n2.--Ant Hill Country, near Pine Creek 3\n3.--Downs Country Between pp. 4-5\n4.--Daly River 4-5\n5.--Rocky Bar and Reach on the Flora River 4-5\n6.--A Lily Water Pool 4-5\n7.--Swamp jungle, Melville Island 4-5\n8.--Two Kakadu Men 6-7\n9.--Geimbio Family, Man with Six Wives 6-7\n10.--Two Kakadu Women 6-7\n11.--Group of Women of Mulluk Mulluk Tribe 6-7\n12.--Group of Port Essington Natives on Board Cooper's Lugger, in Apsley Straits 6-7\n13.--Group of Older Men in Characteristic Attitudes. Melville Island 6-7\n14.--Two Melville Island Men. Back View, showing Cicatrices 8\n15.--Two Melville Island Men. Front View, showing Cicatrices 8\n16.--Bathurst Island Man with Head Decorated. Side View 9\n17.--Bathurst Island Man with Head Decorated. Front View 9\n18.--Melville Island Man whose Leg was Bitten off by a Crocodile 10\n18A.--Larakia Woman with joint of Index Finger Cut Off 10\n19.--Lubras Cooking. Waduman Tribe 27\n20.--Man Killing Snake. Kakadu Tribe 28\n21.--Native Cooking Oven, showing the Stones that are Heated. They are in the Shade at the right hand side 28\n22.--Stringy-Bark Mia Mia, with Man, Woman and Child. Melville Island 29\n23.--Young Child Deserted and left in Camp. Melville Island 29\n24.--Skeleton of Mosquito Mia Mia. Roper River 31\n25.--Mosquito Mia Mia. Roper River 31\n26.--Buffalo Corrobboree. Melville Island 33\n27.--Buffalo Corrobboree. Melville Island 34\n28.--End of Corrobboree. Melville Island 34\nMap showing Distribution of Local Groups on Melville and Bathurst Islands Page 44\n29.--Procession of Decorated Men through the Forest, during the Yam Ceremony. Melville Island 94\n30.--The Ceremonial Ground during the Yam Ceremony 96\n31.--The Three Men bending down are holding the Marukumana Boys' Heads in Baskets under the Water 99\n32.--Special Fire built on the Ceremonial Ground to roast the Yams. Melville Island 99\n33-Taking the Yams out of the Fire. Melville Island 102\n{p. xviii}\n34.--Father painting the Mikinyertinga Girl. Melville Island. 108\n35.--Men Pulling their Beards out. The old man on the left-hand side is in the act of pulling. Melville Island 108\n36.--Boys carrying the Wands called Uro-Ammi, when summoning Members of Distant Camps to the Initiation Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 133\n37.--Scene in the Ober Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe . Between pp. 136-7\n38.--Scene in the Ober Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 136-7\n39.--Scene in the Ober Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 136-7\n40.--Scene in the Ober Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 136-7\n41.--Scene in the Ober Ceremony (Snake). Kakadu Tribe 136-7\n42.--Scene in the Ober Ceremony (Snake). Kakadu Tribe 141\n43.--Jungoan Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 145\n44.--Swinging the Bull-roarer in the Larakia Tribe 145\n45.--Showing the Bull-roarer to the Initiates. Larakia Tribe 155\n46.--Placing the Bull-roarer on the Hands of the Initiates. Larakia Tribe 155\n47.--Scene from the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 186\n48.--Scene from the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 187\n49.--Scene from the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 186\n50.--Newly-made Grave, before erection of Posts. The Mound is covered with a Sheet of Paper Bark 230\n51.--Two Old Graves. Melville Island 230\n52.--Women wearing Armlets during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville Island 34\n53.--Close of the Mourning Dance. Men leaning on the Grave Posts. Bathurst Island 234\n54.--Clearing the Ground around the Grave, and Erection of Posts. Melville Island 235\n55.--Men Dancing round the Grave Posts. Bathurst Island 236\n56.--Mourning Ceremony, Man jumping in the Air. Bathurst Island 238\n57.--Carrying the Body, wrapped in Paper Bark, to the Grave. Kakadu Tribe 240\n58.--Placing Stones on the newly-made Grave. Kakadu Tribe 240\n59.--Circle of Grass Stalks with Paper Bark in Centre, in which the Body of the Dead Woman had been Wrapped 242\n60.--Water-pouring Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 242\n61.--Men Painting themselves and Children with Nack. Kakadu Tribe 244\n62.--Women wearing Armlets called Kundama, during Mourning Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe. 244\n63.--Child's Bones carried about in Dilly Bag by her Mother. Kakadu Tribe. 248\n64.--Ceremony of Korno 258\n65.--Placing Sticks over the Buried Spirit at the close of the Korno Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 260\n66,--The Old and the Young Numereji Snake. A Bark Drawing. Kakadu Tribe 313\n67.--Bubba Peibi from a Drawing on Bark 313\n68.--Medicine Man rubbing his Hand under his Arm-pit to secure Moisture to rub on the Patient. Kakadu Tribe 319\n{p. xix}\n69.--Medicine Man sucking and massaging Patient to withdraw Girl Magic. Kakadu Tribe 319\n70.--Holes in the Rock supposed to have been made by a Thunder Man at Lurudminni 335\n71.--Bark Belts. Kakadu Tribe 335\n72.--Natives throwing Spears on Melville Island 365\n73.--Corrobboree Wands or Yai-illa. Kakadu Tribe 396\n74.--Natives gathering the Lotus Lily. Roper River 396\n75.--Natives and Dug-out Canoes. Melville Island 399\n76.--Designs drawn on the Bodies of Men during the Performance of a Muraian Ceremony in the Kakadu Tribe 429\n77.--Designs drawn on the Bodies of Kakadu, Umoriu, and Geimbio Natives during the Performance of ordinary Corrobborees 431\n78.--Body Decorations of Melville and Bathurst Islanders during the Performance of Ceremonies 432\n79.--A Bark Drawing of a Mormo called Ingwalin. Kakadu Tribe 433\n80.--Bark Drawings of two Mormo or Debil-debils. Kakadu Tribe 434\n81.--Bark Drawing of a Mormo. Geimbo Tribe 433\n82.--Bark Drawing of a Mormo called Yerobeiri. Kakadu Tribe Between pp. 436-7\n83.--Bark Drawing of a Mormo called Warraguk. Kakadu Tribe 436-7\n84.--Bark Drawing of Three Snakes. Kakadu Tribe 436-7\n85--Bark Drawing of a Crocodile. Kakadu Tribe 436-7\n86.--Bark Drawing of a Native Spearing a large Rock Kangaroo. Kakadu Tribe 436-7\n87.--Bark Drawing of a Kangaroo Hunt, Kakadu Tribe 436-7\n88.--Bark Drawing. Kakadu Tribe 438-9\n89.--Bark Drawing of a Barramunda fish (Osteoglossum leichardti). Kakadu Tribe 438-9\n90.--Bark Drawing of a Native Spearing a \"Native Companion\" (Grus australasianus). Kakadu Tribe 438-9\n91.--Bark Drawing of a Palmated Goose. Kakadu Tribe 438-9\n92.--Bark Drawing of an Echidna. Kakadu Tribe 438-9\nPLATES\nI.--Ornaments Worn by various Individuals in connection with the Initiation Ceremonies on Melville Island. (Coloured) 112\nII.--Sacred Bull-roarers 212\nIII.--Sacred Objects used during the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe. (Coloured) 218\nIV.--Sacred Objects of the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 218\nV.--Sacred Objects of the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe. 220\nVII.--Sacred Objects of the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 222\n{p. xx}\nVII.--Sacred Objects of the Muraian Ceremony. Kakadu Tribe 224\nVIII.--Armlets worn by Women during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville and Bathurst Islands. (Coloured) Between pp. 232-3\nIX.--Decorated Rings Carried by the Women during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville Island. (Coloured) 232\nX.--Grave Posts, Melville Island. (Coloured) 232\nXI.--Tjilaiyu Ceremony. Explanatory Diagram 259\nXII.--Stone Axes 355\nXIII.--Various Forms of Spears 356\nXIV.--Spears, Barbed on one Side. Melville and Bathurst Islands 360\nXV.--Spears, Barbed on both Sides. Melville and Bathurst Islands 362\nXVI.--Various Forms of Clubs. Kakadu Tribe 366\nXVII.--Various Forms of Clubs from Melville and Bathurst Islands 368\nXVIII.--Various Forms of Clubs. Melville and Bathurst Islands 372\nXIX.--Various Forms of Clubs. Melville and Bathurst Islands 374\nXX.--Spear Throwers 377\nXXI.--Various Forms of Baskets 377\nXXII.--Netted Baskets, woven out of Grass, etc. Kakadu and other Tribes 381\nXXIII.--Netted Baskets, woven out of Grass, etc. Kakadu and other Tribes 382\nXXIV.--Netted Baskets, woven out of Grass, etc. Kakadu and other Tribes 384\nXXV.--Baskets made from Stringy-bark. Melville Island 388\nXXVI.--Trumpets. Kakadu and other Tribes . 390\nXXVII.--Various Articles used by the Kakadu Tribe 397\nXXVIII.--Various Forms of Ornament. Kakadu and allied Tribes 403\nXXIX.--Bark Armlets worn by Women during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville and Bathurst Islands 408\nXXX.--Bark Armlets worn by Women during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville and Bathurst Islands 409\nXXXI.--Ring carried by Women during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville Island 415\nXXXII.--Rings carried by Women during Mourning Ceremonies on Melville Island 417\nXXXIII.--Various Forms of Armlets. Melville Island 411\nXXXIV.--Bark Baskets. Melville Island. (Coloured) 422\nXXXV.--Bark Baskets. Melville Island. (Coloured) 422\nXXXVI.--Decorated Spears. Melville and Bathurst Islands. 426\nMap of the Northern Territory 6\n{p. 1}","title":"CONTENTS","type":"page"}