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her poor mouth was in a terrible state for some two or three months after. This string has no special name applied to it.
In other cases, the old doctor will feel the patient all over, and after, what may be described as, a form of massage, swear that he can feel a piece of spear tip somewhere inside: this, by a kind of ? he will either suck out with his mouth, or else draw out with a wommera. In the latter case, the method of procedure will be somewhat as follows. He will locate the remnant of spear somewhere in the back of the patient, shoulder, etc, and then getting a confederate to place the barbed end of the woomera on the spot indicated where he keeps his hands. He tells him to give a pull - he does so, and out shoots a piece of spear tip, the ’doctor’ having of course placed the latter on the barb. The on-lookers all make a rush for this, and a consultation is then held as to the ownership of that piece of weapon which they firmly believe to have been removed from inside the sufferer. Of course some poor beggar who has comparatively few friends, or has been making himself objectionable to the camp generally in some way or another, is pounced upon, and made to answer for it.
Any sick people are well tended and looked after, the major position of these duties falling upon the blood - or group - mother, in all cases, no matter the sex of the patient.
The reason why the bones of dead relatives are carried about can only be explained when a study of the procedure of Burial has been made. I will do this now, and describe first of all what occurs in the case of any female whatsoever, or of any male, who happens to have