Permanent names.

At the ceremony of the Bora permanent names are given to the youths, and these are selected for various causes. Should a young man during his minority distinguish himself either whilst hunting or fighting, or meet with any accident either serious or ludicrous, a name in allusion to that circumstance is given at this time, probably at the moment of knocking out the tooth There page 46 are few left-handed blacks to be found; one man whom I met possessing that peculiarity was expressively named in consequence. The Bora ceremonies occupy some days, and are often attended by blacks from friendly tribes. They invariably wind up with a corrobboree. The surrounding trees are deeply marked by various patterns, and the tribe move off to some distant spot. In the Ulladulla district after one of these meetings the blacks left hanging to the surrounding trees numerous small bundles of sticks tightly bound with vines.