When someone died, the widow, mother and a number of other female kin were banned from speaking until the deceased had undergone his second, final burial rite.
[6]In Binbinga metaphysics Ulanji was a supernatural being in the primordial world of the Mungai times,[7] similar to the Bobbi-Bobbi of the Anula people.
After making a water-hole full of water lilies, he began to move across the country, creating springs and creeks, and also the upper reaches of the Limmen river, and forming hills and ranges.
[10] When a person died,[a] his bones were wrapped in a package of paperbark, bound together with strings of human hair and wood bindings.
[11] The Binbinga were first studied in some detail by Spencer and Gillen who had access to an excellent informant, the medicine man Kurkutji.