BY R. ETHERIDOE, JUNR. 343 



of the women and was known as Dardar, and consisted of a streak 

 of white across the forehead, down the sides of the cheeks, round 

 the chin and each eye. 



The material employed, whether as caps or head plasters only, 

 displays a wonderful similarity of material over the entire Conti- 

 nent. Eyre,* speaking of the Murray tribes in general, calls it 

 "carbonate of lime"; Angasf terms the material "pipe-clay"; a 

 similar name is assigned to the pigment used by the Moorundee 

 Tribe, from Mannum to Overland Corner, by Police-Trooper 

 E\vens;| again by Corporal Shaw,§ in the Rankbirit Tribe, at 

 Overland Corner; and white clay, or lime, in West Australia. || 

 Stanbridge describesH the material used by some of the Central 

 Victorian Tribes as a " white-talcy clay"; "clay and ashes" in 

 the Koombokkaburra Tribe,*-' between the Belyando and Cape 

 Rivers; "white pigment" in the Arunta Tribe around Charlotte 

 Watersft; and pipe clay in the Omeo District of Victoria. || 

 Mr. F. Bonney§§ is much more explicit when speaking of the 

 Darling River Tribes; here we meet with "white plaster made of 

 calcined selenite or gypsum." In the Nimbalda Tribe, around 

 Mount Freeling, the same material is made use of;|||| the Antaka- 

 ringas at Charlotte Waters are said^H to use both " gypsum and 

 pipe clay." Of the Murray Tribes, two interesting accounts are 



* Journ. Exped. Discovery in Central Australia, 1845, ii. p. 354. 



t South Australia Illustrated, 1846, t. 30, f. 15. 



X Taplin, Folklore, 1879, p. 30. 



§ Ihid., d. 29. 



II G. F. Moore, Descrip. Vocab. Language Aborig. W. Australia, 1842, 



26. 



H Trans. Ethnol. Soc, 1861, i. p. 298. 



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



tt Stirling, Anthropology Horn Exped., 1896, p. 1.37. 



%X Helms, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1895, x. (2), p. :j99. 



§§ Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1884, xiii. p. 135. 



||.| Police-Trooper Smith, in Taplin, Folklore, 1879, p. 88. 



HIT C. Giles, ihid., p. 90, 



