Yes, the decoration of the body for corroborees have distinct differences in decoration for men and women.
The men’s adornment is often elaborate and dramatic, designed to create a striking, sometimes fearsome, spectacle in the firelight. They paint themselves, use feathers and accessories and leafy anklets.
William Landsborough described his guides painting themselves with “white streaks” so that in the firelight they “looked like skeletons.” Lady Barker gave a detailed account of prisoners painting themselves with “a streak of some white clay between each rib, and similar daubs of white and a red pigment… smeared all over their faces, in a pattern or design.” R.N. Richard Sadleir mentions bodies “striped in white” and heads “fancifully adorned.”
Lady Barker noted the men’s heads were decorated to look “more like a crow’s nest than anything else.” Sadleir describes one tribe where the men’s hair was “stuck all over with the snowy down of the white cockatoo.” Dancers often carried spears, shields, clubs (waddies), and boomerangs.
A common feature mentioned by Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen is that the performers had “bundles of leafy twigs tied round the legs just above the ankles.”
However, when the women dance in their own ceremonies, their adornment is different. Spencer and Gillen provide a specific description from the Arunta tribe: “Each woman had a broad, white band of down across her forehead… [and] a long string, made out of the same material, hanging pendent from the head-band.” They also note that the body designs for women’s dances consist of lines and geometric shapes drawn on the chest and abdomen, and an “elongate ellipse” on each thigh. The material used was sometimes the white fur from rabbits’ tails.