[The Euahlayi Tribe by K. Langloh Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Euahlayi Tribe CHAPTER XIV 7/8
They would fill this vessel with air and hang it out to dry. As, a water vessel, to mix their drinks and medicines in, they used Binguies or Coolamons, a deep, canoe-shaped vessel cut out of solid wood, carved sometimes and painted, a string handle to it.
They used little bark vessels to drink out of, like shallow basins, cut from excrescences on eucalyptus trees; these were called wirree.
A larger bark vessel they used for holding water, honey, or anything liquid. While on the subject of personal decoration I forgot the Moobir, or cuts on the bodies, some of which are tribal marks, some marks of mourning, some merely of ornamentation.
Both men and women are seen with these marks in the Narran district; some huge wales on the skin from the shoulders half-way down the back, some on the chest and the forepart of the arms.
They are cut with a stone knife, licked along by the medicine man, filled in with charcoal, and the skin let grow over. Various reasons are given for these marks: some say they are to give strength, others as a tribal sign, others just to took pretty.
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