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Volume 5 45 |
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WARRAMUNGA MAN'S PROUD DISFIGUREMENT |
RELEASING YOUNG INITIATES FROM THE BAN OF SILENCE |
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| His nostrils broke under the weight of the large wooden spike with which they were pierced, and, following his ideas of beauty, he has pulled out the hairs of his forehead and upper lip | Arrayed in vari-coloured tufts of down to represent tribal ancestors, an elder touches with a magic object the mouths of the young men who have emerged from the ordeals. They may now speak to the men who have conducted them for fourteen weeks through the tests, and make them a present of a wallaby or a small kangaroo as festive meat |