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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Fig. 27a. 



by women, and called a langanjinyi (NGG.), but in that case is 

 fixed around the leg above the calf, and worn by members of 

 their own sex at any time, and also when dancing around the 

 corpse at the burial ceremony. The process of manufacture has 

 already been drawn attention to *-. 



On the Tally River are to be seen split Lawyer-cane armlets 

 (MAL. raingkau) made of a single 

 strip double-coiled (fig. 27, ■27a), and 

 fixed according to two jiatterns, the 

 construction of which diagrammati- 

 cally has been described*^. 



From Whitsunday Island in 1901 

 I obtained a coui)le of women's bangles 

 from which a few pieces of Nautilus 

 shell hung dependent ; the body of 

 the bangle is covered with (?) opossum 

 hair. 



41. Anklets. — On the Penuefather River fibre-twine with no 

 special name beyond that of the plant from which it has been 

 derived (e.g. Ficus malaisia), is tied around the ankles, above 

 the calves, and around the waist ; worn by men alone, and only 

 at coirobborees. 



42. Decorative Scars. — Decorative scars or cheloids can be recog- 

 nised from all others, e.g., fighting, mourning, etc. not only by their 

 constant jjosition upon the chest (PI. x., fig. 1) and upper abdomen, 

 often upon the shoulders and either side of the vertebral column 

 (PL ix.,fig. 2), but from the fact that they are invariably artificially 

 raised, in some cases quite half an inch above the surrounding sur- 

 face. These rai.sed scars contain pigment, are quite sn)ooth, have 

 rounded edges, and possess the feel on touch of tougii fibrous tissue. 

 They are said to remain many years, but eventually decline ; 

 what lends colour to this statement is that, as a rule, the scars 

 among the older men are not so strongly elevated as tho.se in the 

 younger people, Tlie patterns followed are linear, dotted, 

 rectangular or circular, the first being l)y far the most common, 

 but the results of my various enquiries into any pictorial or other 

 signification, except perhaps on the Tully River, has proved 

 fruitless. Whatever tlie pattern be, it does not anywhere in the 

 north, as far as could be learnt, remain constant for the whole 



*'» Roth— Hull. 1— Sect. 11. 

 ■ta Roth— Bull. 1— Sect. 12. 



