Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-09
An Australian Corroborree.


 The music was of the very toughest de- scription, but it answered it's purpose, and wildly excited both listeners and dancers. A monotonous corroberree song was sung by all the women in chorus to which they kept perfect time by beating two sticks together and by drumming violently on opossum and kangaroo skins tightly stretched across their open knees. The only variation in the mu- sic was the speed at which it was produced; ; it was gradually increased from very slow time up to wild, mad swiftness The dance was just as monotonous as the music, and I soon became thoroughly sick of it, but the Nurruru men sat watching it for hours with a perfectly motion]ess intentness which showed their keen interest. Both song and dance were new, and the Mangoraus were teaching it to the Nurrurus, who had to use their very best powers in acquiring knowI- edge of It, for learning anything new, however short and simple, is severe exercise for the untrained mind of an Aus tralian myall. The music began shortly after the little passage of arms over us had taken place. At first it was slow and feeble. Suddenly out of the great gloom beyond the light of the fires a wild figure Ieaped into view; so hideous was it, and so startling the almost magical way in which it came into sight, that gave little unconscious move ment of surprise. at which Berril1, the nerve less brute, laughed, and told me not to be frightened. The dancer was painted to rep resent a skeleton, and white lines down his legs and arms and white stripes that followed the curves of his ribs His long black hair was tied up in tangled mop at the top of his head in which white feathers were stick ing, and in his hands he held his boomerang and nullah nullah. His black body hardly showed against the night-dark background but the f1ickering frelight threw these deathlike lines into brilliant relief. This first dancer took his place, and was swiftly and silently followed by others, painted in exactly the same manner as himself. till about thirty men were taking part in the | mystic dance The position of all the men was the same; their arms, bent at the elbows were raised above their heads till the weap- ons they held crossed one another; the head was slightly inclined to one shoulder, and the fierce gaze of their wild black eyes was were wide apart and bent at the knees, and this position they never changed, as they jumped from the feet and hips only. Here They Are.
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