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to his mother's for his meals. Avulsion here always takes place 

 subsequently to nose-piercing. 



23. Ou the Middle Palmer River, the right central incisor is 

 knocked out in both sexes, the left one being occasionally made 

 to follow suit. At Butclier's Hill it is the left inci.«<or, that is 

 reniovf'd ; here, the victim's eyes are covered so as to preclude 

 the possibility of identifying the actual operator. 



24. At the Bloomfield River, the ^oung boys wlien about 

 eleven or twelve years of age, get one or other of tlie central 

 incisors hammered out, but this constitutes no ceremony, and is 

 not absolutely necessary. 



25. Necklaces ; Shell. — The Pennefather River District provides 

 a large number of shells that are utilised for necklaces. Square- 

 shaped pieces of nacreous shell are made by breaking tl)e shell 

 into chips, each chip being next drilled with the onyi diilP"% its 

 edges bitten with the teeth, finally ground down on white, coral, 

 and then strung on a fibre-twine. This form of necklace has the 

 generic name of lankajana applied to it, whether manufactured 

 from the lankajana ( Avicula lata, Gray, a fiat red-backed shell) 

 from the wu-idi ( Meleagrina maryaritifera, Linn.) or from the 

 arr6-anggati {Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) ; worn for purely 

 decorative pui-poses, ))y vi'omen around the neck, by men over the 

 forehead (as a fillet). The Solen doanii, Gray, pierced at one 

 extremity, and numbers of them strung on twine, is worn liy 

 women when in mourning, for children especially, either around 

 the neck or from over one shoulder across to and under the 

 opposite arm-pit ; it is called chera-a after the name of the 

 mollusc, most of the other necklaces iiere being named aciording 

 to the constituents of which tliey are composed. The manguru 

 is worn by little boys and girls only, and made from tlie 

 Dentalitim acictiluni, Gould ; the shell is broken up into seg- 

 ments which are strung together, the whole having the a}>pear- 

 ance of European glass-bugles. The k6-chi {Oliva anstvalis, 

 Duclos) after being stood on its end, the apex gently hit with a 



wooden hammer, and tlien chip))ed ofl", 



thus forming an aperture through 



,,. ,„ which tlie threail passes end to end of 



1* \)i. 18. ■ . ' . 



the shell (fig. 18) ; is worn by mothers 

 on tlie deatii of an infant ; instead of l)eiiig used on the neck, 

 round and round which it is wound, it may be slung from 

 across and over one shoulder to under the opposite armpit, 



I'' Roth— Bull 7— «ect. 42. 



