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EXPLANATION OF PLATES I. TO XIX. 



Plate I. 

 Larrekiya man, about 28 years of age, with body scar=; ex- 

 ceptionally well defined, wearing forehead band of kangaroo teeth. 



Plate IT. 

 Larrehiya man, about 35 years of age, wearing plume of 

 cockat-oo feathers, forehead band, nose-stick, neeklace made of 

 threaded segments of grass-lstems, armlets, and broad coiled belt 

 of stringybark ; the circular scars produced by the firestick along 

 the upper arm and diagonally across the chest are also visible. 



Plate ITT. 

 Larrekiya woman, about 30 years of age, showing scars made 

 on her back during the mourning ceremony at the death of 

 her husband. 



Plate IV. 



Kunandra woman, about 23 years of age. 



Plate V. 

 Tree burial. Lifting the corpse to the platform of boughs 

 constructed in the forks of trees. 



Plate VI. 

 Tree grave, near Knuckey's Lagoon. 



Plate VII. 



Woman in mourning, ehowing gashed scalp with ashes rub- 

 bed in. She is in the act of collecting wood for the camp fire. 

 and is wearing a white forehead band. 



Plate VIII. 



Natives driving fish, to be trapped in shallow water, Kather- 

 ine River. 



Plate IX. 

 Native hut. 



Plate X. 

 Fig. 1. — Implements for making fire by the "sawing process." 

 Fig. 2. — Native making fire by ''sawing process." 



Plate XI. 

 Rock drawings. Blunder Bay. Victoria River. 



Plate XII. 

 Rock drawings; . Blunder Bay, Victoria River. 



Plate XIII. 

 Rock drawing, monitor, Katherine River. 



Plate XiV. 

 Rock drawing, fish (Toxotes sp.). Katherine River. 



