LIST OF PLATES

[Frontispiece] (in colour)—The Buffalo Hunters’ Triumph
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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]