EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXIII. 



Fig. 1. Women mourners — parta-maro, or plaster possessors — witli tlieir 

 heads plastered with blobs of part a or burnt gjpsum, causing the 

 whole head of hair at a distance to appear one mass of white. 

 Boulia District. (Reproduced from the " Queenslander," Nov. 2. 

 I'.KIl, liT l,iii(l |M;rniissioii i<\' \]u' Fldihu-). 



.. L'. TIn iH.i f.ii-Kril ii|)ri'.;liU iix-d to -ii|i]Mirt ihc |),,lf on » liicli 1 In- 

 l.oilic- of vduii'^' irieii pl.-icrd in >hccl,« of b;irk .-ir'i- slung ]iyf\ \o\\~ In 

 LTtMn.-itl.in : tlirse li| irii;lil > i .I'tcn i;i \ c I lif >'n\\ clue tu I lir <-|i;i |-|-ril 

 rcni:iin> sc;ill('j'e>l iiliiHjt. rmni'lMlbn- i;i\iT, ('.-iih' ^llrl^ I'cnln- 

 -nhi. 



