28 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
Fig. 3. (Collected by Mr. J. C. Harrison) is also 
from Sette Kama. It has on the forehead a black 
lozenge, or tribal mark, in relief, on which four 
smaller ones are carved. This mask, which 
measures 93 inches in height by 5? in width, has 
a less extensive and elaborate coiffure, there being 
only a slightly rounded elevation (coloured 
black), representing a short-cropped crown of 
hair; but the portions of a series of wooden 
pegs indicate that the mask was surrounded 
by some additional ornamentation. 
As to the ceremonies in which these objects 
were used, the donors have, so far, been unable 
to obtain any information except that they are 
entirely prohibited to women. The intrusion 
or prying into these rites by women, or even 
their chance encounter with the wearer of such 
a mask, would have to be expiated by death. 

Fig 3. 
‘Medicine’ at the Museums.—lIt may not be without interest, from 
a Folk-lore point of view, to place on record that but a few days ago, 
an Irish lad suffering badly from scrofulous sores, was brought to the 
Mayer Museum by his parents, who earnestly besought the authorities that 
they might be allowed to touch the child’s neck with an Irish Stone Celt, 
exhibited in one of the cases. It was unavailing to try and persuade the 
deluded and superstitious couple, that no possible good could follow such 
an application. As their faith in the efficacy of the Stone could not be 
shaken, and they were loth to go away without being allowed to try this, 
in their belief, unfailing remedy, opposition was finally, and not without 
some hesitation, withdrawn, and the ancient implement placed in their hands. 
After the operation the parents departed happy, grateful, and in the most 
perfect confidence that their child would be healed, and not without 
expressions of surprise that so great a boon had been conferred on them 
without the fee, which they were prepared, and that very gladly, to pay. 

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