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the Pitta-Pitta, Mitakoodi and Kalkadoon Tribes respectively, 

 the Kojn is put on in lumps, until the whole hair appears an 

 irregular mass of this material.* In the Arunta Tribe, around 

 Charlotte Waters, Central Australia, according to Dr. E. C. 

 Stirling,! the hair is matted into coils with this white pigment. 

 The widow is called Inpirta^ or the " whitened one in reference 

 to the pipeclay.";]: The peculiar ceremonies in the Arunta Tribe, 

 accompanying the putting on of this pipeclay, described by Prof. 

 Baldwin Spencer and Mr. F. J. Gillen are well worth perusal. 

 The adoption of this form of pigmentation in the Central Queens- 

 land Tribes appears to have been more universal in the com- 

 munity than the mere wearing of a cap by specially afflicted 

 individuals, for Dr. W. E. Roth says§ that in the Boulia District 

 it is adopted by all, " whether the deceased be man, woman, or 

 child," but is worn longer by a woman mourning for her husband. 



This simpler form of an outward exhibition of grief extended 

 quite into the south-east corner of the Continent, for Mr. R. 

 Helms ascertained!! that the members of the Omeo Tribe in North 

 Gippsland " smear pipeclay over their head as a sign of mourn- 

 ing." This was " retained for some time, but as a I'ule much 

 longer by the women than by the men." 



This assumption of white by the men is also an interesting 

 point, not only on the head but on the beard also. The latter in 

 the Arunta Tribe, at Charlotte Waters, is matted into coils with 

 the pigment;^ the same treatment of the hair in this tribe has 

 already been mentioned. In the Koombokkaburra Tribe, on the 

 main range between the Belyando and Cape Rivers, East-Central 

 Queensland, " the women plaster the heads,"** presumedly by 



* Roth, loc. cit. pp. 16-1-166. 



T Anthropology Horn Expecl., 1896, p. 137. 



X Spencer & Gillen, Native Tribes of C. Australia, 1899, p. 500. 



§ Ethnological Studies, 1897, p. 164. 



II Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 189.5, x. (2), p. 399. 



IT Stirling, Anthiopology Horn Exped., 1896, p. 137. 



** J. MacGlashan, in Curr, Australian Race, 1887, iii. p. 21. 



