Aboriginal Marndiwala Initiation Ceremonies in Borroloola

Young initiate

A young Yanyuwa “daru” or initiate with the spear that he will throw at men who then will have to dance for him at his ceremony in Borroloola, near the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Jan 03, 1984
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