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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
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This message-stick was sent when all the tribe was to be collected for great meetings, ceremonial fights, or the Bora ceremonies.
FIG. 45.—MESSAGE-STICK OF THE WAKELBUKA TRIBE, AND KABUGABUL-BAJERU OF CHEPARA TRIBE.
The messenger was painted in a particular manner, was decked with feathers, and carried, when calling a Bora, in addition to the Kabugabul-bajeru, a bull-roarer (Bribbun), and a spear, to the point of which is attached a bag containing
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