NORTH QUKKNSLANI) KTIINOCiKAPIl V — KOIll. ZO 



fixed on the back of the individual's head, giving rise to a 

 gorgeous-looking yellow halo ; at other times, especially between 

 Cardwell and the Tully River, the head is first of all covered 

 with blobs of beeswax, or else completely encased in this material, 

 and the feathers then attached. Additional local names are : 

 MAL. tchura, KYI. (Cape Bedford) mirinibal, KWA. arrirgurr.^ 



Emu-feathers are fixed witli beeswax to the hair in both men 

 and women at Cape Bedford. 



On the Pennefalher River, in times of mourning, members of 

 both sexes attach a red featiier, or two of a species of Blue 

 Mountain-parrot to the forelock ; this feather ornament, lik(! the 

 bird from which it is derived, is called a mantenuta. Similarly 

 worn by women, under the same circumstances, is the red flower 

 of the aranyi, the local name of the Coral-tree {Erythrina vesj>er- 

 tilis, Bentham). 



9. Knuckle-hones. — Knuckle and similar bones from the kangaroo 

 or dingo, and \\\) to about two and a half inches in length, are 

 fixed with cement by string to the tuft of hair over the temporal 

 region, whence they dangle one on each side in front of the ears, 

 in the Boulia and Upper Georgina Districts. 



10. Tooth Hair-ornaments. — The double tooth-ornament^^ is 

 formed of an oval-shaped blob of cement into which a couple of 

 incisor teeth of the kangaroo, rarely of the dingo, are fixed ; the 

 cement employed is that of the Triodia or Grevillea. There is 

 an aperture in the base of the ornament through which a small 

 lock of hair from over the centre of the forehead is passed and 

 thus fixeil, with the result that the tips of the two teeth rest 

 midway between the eyebrows. On occasion it is made to hang 

 from a forehead baud instead. Though used by both sexes at 

 corrobborees and other festive occasions, it is manufactured l>y men 

 only in the Upper Geoigina, Leichhardt-Selwyn, Cloncurry, Upper 

 Diamantina, and portions of the Boulia Districts. In IS97, it 

 was not being made at Marion Downs, neither on the Mulligan, 

 Lower Georgina, nor Middle Diamantina Rivers. Local names 

 for this ornament are — PPT. milka, KAL. yirrara, MIT. yirran- 

 ggal. In the Burketown area is to be fouud a similar single 



s At Brisbane the yellow top-knots made into bunches on wooden 

 skewers, would be stuck into the hair tied up in a knot at the back of the 

 head ; used by "doctors" and great Hghtnig men. Ordinary male mortals 

 would just have feathers from the "Blue-mountain" or " Green " parrot, 

 or (on the coast) swan's down stuck into the thromsof the hair and beard. 

 (T. Petrie). 



5' See Roth— Ethnol. Studies, etc., 1897, fig. 253. 



