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“Decorate it—usually round one (log), but I did it on canvas. To store human bone. Full of ochre, the bone, paperbark coffin painted up—we call it costume painting, paintings like this, for coffins.
Store it at burial site, at the cave and in the night, they all glow up. The lights keep people out of the area. Those red circles glow, like eyes.
In the dry, special ceremony, when you sing, the bones sing too. Make them happy; they keep dangerous stuff away from you. |
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