ilEMOIi;S OF THE QUEEXSL.tXD MUSEUM— YoL. VI., Pl.vte X. 



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A Native Pillow made entirely of Emu Featheks. 



Native name " Hooi'barra" (Q.K. 15/728, Mitchell Ilivcr). 



The habit of sleeping with only the flat Rround beneath the head being univei-Kal tliroiighoat 

 Qncen«lan(l, makes this novel pillow the more intorei-'ting, and there can be, I tliinU, little <loubt 

 that its make is due to the effects of eivilisation. The feathers are securely fastened together with 

 a kind of white oehro which in\ist have been applied originally in a moist condition, the feathers 

 Ixjcoming fastened as the white earth dried. 



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