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PLATE XXII

Ground-painting, made with coloured sands, representing a mythical snake, which is shown descending into a hole in the ground. The other series of concentric circles stand for trees and bushes; the footprints are those of a man who followed the snake. The paintings are used in connexion with ceremonials of the snake-totem clan. Australia. After Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 740, Fig. 312.