Quaint Assembly
HERE was one occasion when the native men took her to be initiated into the freedom of all their totems-+ an honour given to no one but her. " Very early one morning," she says, "I was awakened by the insistent clicking of boomerangs outside my tent. I went out to find a long file of more than fifty men forming a half-circle. All carried spears, and all were naked except for their decorations-crazy stripes of red ochre and white pipe clay, crests of cockatoo feathers, hair belts and tassels reddened with blood, and waist-belts with a tuft of emu feathers behind. ... In my sober Edwardian coat and skirt, a sailor hat with fly-veil, and neat, highheeled shoes, I took up my position in the centre. We must have made a quaint
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 2
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151Quaint Assembly New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 2
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