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backwards and forwards three times, having its ends lixed at 

 either side by separate ties. The intervening spaces between 

 the teeth are interwoven and filled with beeswax. Thus the 

 white enamel-surfaces only are exposed at the base of the 

 black band, their roots being embedded in the wa-x. See pi. i. 

 Single teeth of the kangaroo are utilized somewhat simi- 

 larly. After cleansing the enamel face as described, a lump 

 of beeswax and a tooth are warmed at a fire; then 

 the requisite amount of wax is scooped up with 

 the root of the tooth, and worked with the lingers 

 into a small globular mass round that end ; the 

 fingers during this process being kept greasy by 

 rubbing them over the nose, thus preventing the 

 wax from sticking to them. A little charcoal is 

 next crumbled between two fingers, and pressed 

 into the surface of the wax. A central lock of 

 hair is squeezed into the wax of the ornament, 

 Fig. 47. which is worn over the forehead. See fig. 47. 



The curls of warriors are at times partly em- 

 bedded in beeswax and ochre, the head thereby becoming 

 covered with numerous cylindrical bodies, from the lower ex- 

 tremities of which the ends of the bundles of hair spread out 

 and curve upwards. 



Necklaces. — Reference has already been made to the 

 grass necklaces worn during initiation ceremonies (page 10). 



They are made by thread- 

 ing short segments of 

 dry flower-stalks of grass 

 upon thin fur* strings. 

 About ten of such 

 threaded strings, about 

 eight inches in length, 

 and bearing loops at the 

 ends, are tied together at 

 both ends by single 

 pieces of human-hair 

 string, which serve to tie 

 the ornament round the 

 neck. See fig. 48 and 

 pi. ii. 



Closely allied forms are 

 made by substituting the 

 grass segments by trun- 

 cated shells of Denfaliiim, when as many as twenty-six strings 

 are grouped together. 



* Cf. J. MacgrilHvray : Narrative of n Vovage in H M S 

 "Rattlesnake." 1852. vol. i., p. 146; and W. E.'Roth: Ethnolo- 

 ciral Studies, p. 3, pi. xiii., fig. 264. 



Fig. 



48. 



