 Sometimes the boys would have to pass along a path marked on the ground representing the transition from childhood to manhood, and this path might be marked by a stone arrangement or by spirit footprints ("mundowa"), cut into the rock.In other areas of south-east Australia, a Bora site might consist of two circles of stones, and the boys would start the ceremony in the larger, public, one, and end it in the other, smaller, one, to which only initiated men are admitted.Matthews (1897) gives an excellent eye-witness account of a Bora ceremony, and explains the common use of the two circles.