Aboriginal Initiation Ceremonies from Central Australia

Initiates being painted

Two boys of the Jungarrayi subsection, covered in red ochre, being painted up on the final day of their “kurdiji” initiation ceremony; that night they will be circumcised, “made into young men”.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Jan 13, 1987
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