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X The next stage in the ceremony is that the young man lies down on his face, when one or two of the other young men cut from three to twelve gashes on the nape of his neck, with a sharp piece of flint. These, when healed into raised scars, denote that the person wearing, them has passed through the Wilyaru ceremony. A Dieri points with pride to these scars as showing that he is Wilyaru. Until the scars are healed, he must not turn his face to a female, nor eat in the sight of one.

Immediately after the Wilyaru, a bull-roarer, called by