LIST OF PLATES
Reading edition
Frontispiece (in colour)—The Buffalo Hunters’ Triumph
Plate Opposite Page
I Wordaman natives on the march 4
II Comparison of European with Aboriginal figure 12
III 1. Colossal brow-ridge, Arunndta man. 2. Supra-orbital prominence, deep notch at root of nose, prognathism, and female beard 16
IV 1. Aluridja woman. 2. Wongapitcha warrior, so-called Semitic type 32
V Wordaman man, profile and full-face 36
VI 1. Wongapitcha woman, wearing “ungwaina” (nose-stick) and fur-string bandeau. 2. Wongapitcha woman, wearing bloodwood seed pendants called “dindula” 44
VII 1. Old Yantowannta man, showing a strong growth of hair covering the body. 2. Old Yantowannta man, showing peculiar method of wearing the beard 48
VIII Old Kai-Kai, the leading medicine man of the western Arunndta 64
IX 1. Men of Kolaia tribe, Cambridge Gulf, wearing the hair tied at the back around a pad of emu feathers. 2. Wongapitcha men wearing ornamental wooden hair-pins 68
X 1. A juvenile “blonde,” Aluridja tribe. 2. Ponga-Ponga gin carrying pet opossum on her head while on the march 76
XI Rocking a child to sleep, Sunday Island 80
XII Juvenile Types. 1. Full-face, female, Wongkanguru tribe. 2. Profile, female, Aluridja tribe 96
XIII 1. The game of “gorri,” Humbert River, Northern Territory. 2. A “Kutturu” duel, Aluridja tribe 100
XIV 1. Arunndta boy practising with toy shield and boomerang. 2. Wordaman warrior, holding prevalent north-western type of spear-thrower and wearing pubic fur tassel 108
XV 1. Framework of hut in course of construction, Cooper’s Creek, S.W. Queensland. 2. Hut decked with porcupine grass, Arltunga district 112
XVI 1. Wongapitcha women carrying dogs across their backs. 2. Kolaia man standing in the characteristic bird-like attitude, Cambridge Gulf 128
XVII Female wood-carriers, Aluridja tribe 132
XVIII Two handfuls of witchedy grubs 140
XIX 1. Aluridja tree-climber. 2. Wordaman tree-climber 144
XX Kangaroo hunters, Aluridja tribe 160
XXI 1. Arunndta girl digging “Yelka.” 2. Arunndta gin cleaning “Yelka” in bark pitchi 164
XXII 1. Sunday Islander making fire by the twirling process during a ceremonial. 2. “Kaloa” or mangrove raft, Worora tribe, Glenelg River district 172
XXIII Aluridja men “pointing” the bone 176
XXIV A “boned” man, Minning tribe 192
XXV 1. Dieri grave, Lake Eyre district. 2. Yantowannta grave, Innamincka district 196
XXVI 1. Aluridja widow. 2. Yantowannta widow 204
XXVII Tooth-rapping ceremony, Wongapitcha tribe 208
XXVIII 1. Tooth-rapping ceremony. 2. Sunday Islander, who has had the two upper medium incisors removed during his initiation 224
XXIX 1. Old men introducing a dance during an initiation ceremony, Kukata tribe. 2. Circumcision ceremony, Kukata tribe 228
XXX Circumcision of a Wogait boy 236
XXXI Melville Islander, full-face and profile 240
XXXII An episode of the great fire ceremony, Kolaia tribe 256
XXXIII Ceremonial venesection, Arunndta tribe. 1. The median basilic vein is being slit. 2. The blood which is spurting from the incision is being collected on a shield 260
XXXIV The “Tjilbakuta” of the great emu ceremony, Arunndta tribe 268
XXXV Flashlight photograph of “Illiya Tjuringa” or great emu ceremony, Arunndta tribe 272
XXXVI 1. An ordinary performer in the Ladjia or yam ceremony, wearing the “tdela” head-gear. 2. The impersonator of the “Kuta Knaninja” in the Ladjia or yam ceremony 288
XXXVII The sacred “Etominja,” Arunndta tribe 292
XXXVIII 1. Singing to the presiding spirit or Knaninja of the old women or “Arrekutja Tjuringa.” 2. Ceremonial head-gear (“Tjilba Purra”) of phallic significance 300
XXXIX A disenchanted area, Victoria River district 304
XL 1. Rock-carving of human form, Port Hedland. 2. Rock-carvings of lizard, pubic tassel, and owl, Flinders Ranges 320
XLI 1. Rock-carvings (including platypus design), Flinders Ranges. 2. Rock-carvings, Flinders Ranges 324
XLII 1. Rock-carvings, Flinders Ranges. 2. Emu design carved into the butt of a boabab tree, King Sound 332
XLIII 1. Carved boabab nut, King Sound. 2. “Wanningi” from north-western Australia. 3. Slate scrapers used by the extinct Adelaide tribe for trimming skins 336
XLIV 1. Hand marks in cave, Port George IV, Worora tribe. 2. Foot marks in cave, Port George IV, Worora tribe 344
XLV 1. Cave drawings, Forrest River, north-western Australia. 2. Decorating the body with pipe-clay, Humbert River, Northern Territory 352
XLVI Wordaman native with his body and head decorated in imitation of skeleton and skull, Victoria River, Northern Territory 356
XLVII 1. Cave drawings (kangaroo, etc.), Forrest River, north-western Australia. 2. Cave drawing of kangaroo, Forrest River, north-western Australia 360
XLVIII Rock-drawings of archer fish (Toxotes), Katherine River, Northern Territory 364
XLIX Ochre-drawings, Katherine River 368
L 1. Cave drawing of camel, north of Musgrave Ranges, central Australia. 2. Cave drawing of human figure, Glenelg River, north-western Australia 376
LI 1. Ochre-drawings of mythic semi-human creatures, Forrest River, north-western Australia. 2. Sacred “Utnguringita” or witchedy grub drawings, Emily Gap, MacDonnell Ranges 384
LII Aluridja man rendering a musical accompaniment with boomerangs 388
LIII Wordaman youth playing on the “drone pipe” or “bamboo trumpet” 392
LIV 1. Making “vegetable down” by pounding grass between two stones, Humbert River, Northern Territory. 2. Worora native making a stone spear-head, Northern Kimberleys, Western Australia 396
LV 1. Wongapitcha man shaping a spear-thrower with an adze. 2. Aluridja man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake 400