NOKTII IJUEKNSLAND ETHNOGKAPHY — KOI'lI. 51 



hratum, Jonas, after the manner of a Iiouse-painter's graining- 

 comb. 



At Cape Bedford, body-painting is indulged in only by the 

 men, Ked, white, and yellow are the colours, mixed with water, 

 which are put on in horizontal rows as far down as the waist, 

 but below that in vertical rows. 



On the Bloonifield Kiver, painting varies according to the 

 purposes intended — mourning, tighting, initiation or general 

 corrobborees. For any pur[)Ose, the women are oulyvpainted in 

 designs on the fuce. 



Amongst the Lower Tully River natives, no particular patterns 

 are followed but a general smear all over with one or other pig- 

 ment. The body is thus painted not only for decorative purposes 

 but also for comfort ; a very cooling effect on a broiling hot day. 

 Hardly any ornaments are worn by the women, and 

 comparatively few by men. 



In the Kockhampton District, red ochre was often used for 

 smearing in vertical streaks down the trunk and limbs, while 

 the Keppel Islanders would often paint the trunk and limbs in 

 vertical bands of alternate red and white stripes, both front and 

 back, with the head completely raddled. 



54. Cloaks and Rugs. — The manufacture of Opossum-cloaks 

 and Kangaroo-rugs is now a lost art in Queensland, and in the 

 course of all my wanderings I have never seen a single specimen. 

 The preparation of the leather however has already been drawn 

 attention to""'. 



55. Plaited- Blankets. — These were made on the Embley, 

 Pennefather and Batavia Rivers, up to within recent years, so 

 late as 1899 ; I watched some being made on the Batavia River, 

 where the Nggerikudi folk speak of them as anji-ana-anji. They 

 ave of two types, circular and rectangular. The former is 

 manufactured from the whole stems of the Ileleocharis sphacelata, 

 on a chain-twist pattern"^ from a central core, and working 



^=* llotli — Bull. 7 — Sect. 12. Mr. T. Petrie says that at Brisbane an 

 Opossum-skill cloak six by four or five feet, suHicieiitly large for two people 

 to shelter under, would be made up of from tliirty to forty skins, out in 

 sijuares, and edges over-cast with kangaroo sinew ; the holes were pierced 

 with a pointed kangaroo or swan bone, sometimes a porcupine-quill, and 

 the tendon passed through by hand. After the cloak was tiiorouglily dry, 

 after the sewing, it was scarred over by means of stone or shell into 

 straight-line, cross-hatch, or S-shaped patterns, and then covered with 

 red pigment. The hairy side of the cloak was next to the people lying 

 underneath it. The kangaroo skin, from one animal, was prepared in 

 similar fashion, and laid upon like an under-l)lanket. 



'i Roth-Bull. 1— Sect. 29. 



