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regular, and produces a hard stiff and inflexible envelope for the 

 body-trunk, two feet seven inches in height, with a girth of about 

 four feet. The front of the ventro-thoracic shield is ornamented 

 by a median and vertical line of black diamond-shaped figures, with 

 three similar lines on the inside and outside of the tergal shield. 

 Edge-Partington figures^'- a similar corselet with three rows on 

 the ventro-thoracic shield. The tergal shield is high and upstand- 

 ing, without any trace of a continuous circular collar as represented 

 by Schmeltz and Krause,-'^ in another corselet from the same 

 islands : the latter is, however, similarly ornamented to that pre- 

 sented by Mr. Black. The overlap is at the left side, and the 

 envelope appears to be kept in place simply by its own rigidity 

 and curvature, without the aid of the lacing in front sometimes met 

 with in these investitures.'^ The sleeves, separate from the corselet, 

 are in one, with a double neck piece, through which the head is 

 protruded. Each sleeve is terminated by a guard for the back of 

 the hand, and this is retained in position by a thumb-loop. The 

 knitting is large and loose, rendering the sleeves pliable, quite 

 different from the rigid condition of the corselet. The entire 

 length of the whole is five feet, the sleeves at about the elbows 

 are six and three-quarter inches wide, and the neck pieces eight 

 inches wide. 



Another corselet (Plate xxii,), presented by Mr. E. Twynam, 

 is more elaborate in every way. The ventro-thoracic shield 

 bears two cross bars, a clavicular and thoracic, with between 

 them a row of five elongated diamond-shaped figures, and below 

 the thoracic bar, the venter carries two similar rows one above 

 the other. The inside of the tergal shield is transversely divided 

 by four cross-bars into five panels or spaces, the three upper 

 panels containing seven diamond-shaped figures in each, the 

 central narrow panel bears nine such, and the lumbar or bottom 

 broad space contains three transverse rows of nine similar figures; 

 the outside of the tergal shield, which is of the high square shape 

 without collar, is similarly ornamented. From the arm-holes 

 downwards the cuirass is open at both sides, with an overlap of 

 the tergal shield forwards over the ventro-thoracic, the margins 

 of the former having a coir loop through which pass similar strings 

 made fast on the centre of the venter. This is precisely as seen 

 in Webster's illustration already quoted. The height is two feet 

 ten inches, and the girth four feet. 



A very remarkable discovery was made by Mr. T. Whitelegge 

 in the early part of the year, along the local sea-board. A series 

 of heavy gales displaced the sand hummocks at Bondi and Maroubra 



12 Edge-Partington — Ethnol. Album, 1st Series, pt. 1, pi. clxx. 



13 Schmeltz and Krause— Eth.-Anthrop. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, 

 pi. xxviii., f. 2. 



14 Webster— Illus. Cat., 1897, 14, p. 12, f. 1.39. 



