Briefstokje (cugina), vergelijkbaar met no. 1321-32, maar groter en van geelbruin hout vervaardigd. Versierd met meander- en kruisvormige motieven.<BR> <BR> Cugina, invitationstick; elliptic slat of yellowish brown wood; back convex, front flat and, with exception of the one end, grooved; pattern of the ornament meanderlike. Gnamo-tribe, Nullagine-district.<BR> <BR> All the tribes of N. W. Australia practise cirumcision.<BR> When the boys are about 14 years old, an Invitation-stick (gilliana or cugina, [see No's: 1321-32 and 1321-35] is carried round from family to family, scattered over the territory of the tribe at the various waterholes and hunting grounds, and a meeting-place is appointed upon a certain new-moon, to which men, women and children repair.<BR> <BR> In a month's time, (the next new-moon) the whole tribe has assembled, and on a given signal by one of the elders, the candidates for circumcision are suddenly pounced