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Description: | Three flat rectangular stones, two which are longer and narrower are decorated with bands of red ochre and charcoal (male). The shortest one is female and only allowed to be decorated with charcoal. Belonged to Kalberi (east) totem group, rare.
"These are stone churinga or inma, flat slate tablets. They were some of the sacred objects which were used in ceremonies for the increase of the edible root, and could not be seen by women on pain of death. They would have been kept hidden most of the time and only the totem group involved would be allowed at the rites, other people being warned off by the noise of a bullroarer. The flat slate tablets are rectangular, the male ones being longer and narrower. The male ones are decorated with alternate stripes of red ochre and charcoal. The shorter, wider female one is only allowed to be decorated with charcoal. None of them are allowed to be incised."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 2000 Purpose: WS2001
Field collector: Bates, Miss Daisy | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1850-1922 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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