Bora (Australian)

The Bora is an initiation ritual of the Kamilaroi, a strain of the Aborigine in the south of Australia in the area of ​​New South Wales.

The ritual will be dismissed with the ten year-old boys into men age, differs in the different tribal cultures, often include scarification, circumcision, pulling a tooth or cutting of finger joints so.

This ceremony is performed on so-called Bora places. The most famous is the place Terry Hie Hie, which is 60 kilometers from Moree. There are further annular spaces, in Australia on which the Bora is completed. The Bora rituals are known from 1880 by Garah, 1883 at Terry Hie Hie, 1890 in Queensland, 1894 in Gundabluey - South - West at Mungindi and 1905 in Wee Waa ( Wiawa ).

The Bora is conducted in the presence only of men, and they will be prepared well in advance of the groups and families of Aborigines.

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Gamilaraay people Moree, New South Wales
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