38 



Small articles are rolled up in paper-bark, the roll 

 folded in its centre and tied together at the open ends 

 with grass or fibre. 



Infants, too, are wrapped in paper-bark and carried 

 under the arms of their mothers.* 



Fig. 39. 



Fig. 40. Fig. 41. 



Water-vessels and baskets are constructed out of the 

 leaves of the fan-palm. A leaf is folded at the edge oppo- 

 site the stalk in the manner shown in figure 40, the overlap- 

 ping folds h and h' being stitched together along the outer 

 edge. The opposite side, containing the stalk, is treated simi- 

 larly. The stalk is next bent round, and its end passed 

 through the gap (t, formed by the union of h and h' , when the 

 end is turned back and tied to itself higher up, thus form- 

 ing a convenient handle. See fig. 41. A similar type has 

 been recorded from Port Essington by Macgillivray.t and a 

 basket containing water from Luxmore Head by King. | 



Large shells of Melo diadema and Megalatractus orna- 

 nus^ are generally employed for drinking cups, small water 

 vessels, and for bailing purposes; in the last-named case, both 

 for scooping the water from a native well, and for removing it 

 from their small canoes. 



A hole is knocked in the body-whorl of these, and may 

 be subsequently enlarged by grinding, so that part of the 

 hand can pass through and grip the columella as a handle. 

 The latter go by the names maraha f Larrekiya ), jinhi ^Tlo- 



* n. AV. E T?oth: Ethnological Studies, p. 183, pi. xxiv., 

 fi^. 436. 



t Narrative of a Voyage of H.M.S. ''Rattlesnake,'' 1852, 

 vol. i.^ p. 146. 



1 Survey of the Intertropical Coasts of Australia, 1827, vol. 

 i., pp. Ill and 112. 



§ Cf. \\ . E. l?oth : North Queensland Etlinography, Bull. No. 

 7, Brifibane : by authority, 1904, p. 29. 



