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ARUNTA TRIBESMEN OF THE CENTRAL WASTE PREPARING A NEW CORROBOREE
| Life is simple, women do most of the work, and men have much leisure. So when there is no great totem rite or other ceremony, they meet and arrange an ordinary dance or corroboree on a ground where flat grinding-stones are kept. After discussing the dances, they undo their kangaroo skin wallets, and with hair-string, bandicoot tails, fathers, paints, and birds' down, paint each other, and make their ornaments |