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red. The string is passed through the gum, then round each tooth and knotted. In 
another necklet made of similar teeth (PI. xxxiv. fig. 6), the latter are smaller, and 
the string is simply passed through a hole in the gum-cement and not tied. 
Tn other instances, the teeth, instead of being strung, are tied in a bunch and 
attached to a cord with an eye, through which its own part runs to form a loop. 
Eyre figures* such an ornament; or the teeth may be attached to a strip of kangaroo 
skin.t 
Fitters AND Heap ORNAMENTS. 
Forehead bands or fillets appear to have been very extensively worn throughout 
the whole of Australia. 
A fillet of the Alligator Tribe is made of string woven, the longest threads being 
left free at the ends and gathered together in knots. It is stained red, the outer side 
coated white, leaving two median transverse red bands and one at each end. Smyth 
speakst of the fillet worn on the Bulloo Downs, Queensland, being covered with pipe- 
clay. On the Lower Murray this portion of dress is known as Mar-rung-nud. 
Another fillet consists of opossum hair twisted into a kind of loose twine, strung 
together, tied at opposite ends, and there whipped round. It is stained red. This 
form of head band is common throughout Australia. Eyre figures one from the 
North Coast. 
What is probably a head ornament consists of White Cockatoo feathers mounted 
as a tuft in gum-cement at the end of a number of strings of twisted opossum hair. 
The manner of wearing such tufts is shown in our PI. xxxv. fig. 1. In the Adelaide 
Museum a figure of a native is shown decorated with one of these tufts in a different 
manner. The string is placed round the man’s neck, the tuft of feathers hanging m 
the middle of his back. A somewhat similar but very much larger ornament is 
figured by Eyre.| 

A further utilisation of birds’ feathers is shown in a fine plume of the wing 
feathers of the “ Magpie Goose,” bound together by whipping the shafts with twine 
and covering with gum-cement. Another plume consists of similar feathers of the 
Native Companion united in the same way. A third plume is made by mounting the 
feathers of the Emu at the end of a small piece of bamboo or reed, with gum-cement. 
Tn our Pl. xxxv. the method of wearing these head ornaments is shown, but Mr. Zietz, 
* Journ. Exped. Discovery Central Australia, 1845, t. 6, f. 11. 
+ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 278, f. 27. 
+ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 276. 
§ Journ. Exped. Discovery Central Australia, 1845, t. 6, f. 17. 
|| Journ, Exped. Discovery Central Australia, 1845, t. 6, f. 10. 
