Briefstokje (cugina) bestaande uit een flauw gebogen bruinhouten staf met ingesneden versiering, in de vorm van groeven. <BR> <BR> Cugina, invitationstick; of dark brown, yellow flamed wood; both ends pointed and both sides convex, but one more than the other; the latter with numerous transverse grooves, and with three or four diagonal grooves between every two of them, the whole surface reticulated by very feeble incision. Gnalluma-tribe, Sherlock-river?<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 1321-33] 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