754 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
spaces between them of the width of a single strand. Pine gum is then 
mixed with red ocher or vermilion and by means of other hair, or 
fibers of any kind laid crosswise, the strands are secured and around 
each intersection of hair a ball of gum is plastered to hold it in place, 
secured to the real growth of hair on the back of the head. About four 
inches further down a similar row of gum balls and cross strings is 
Fic. 1280. Australian wommeras and clubs. 
placed, and so on down to the end. The Indians frequently incorpo- 
rate the false hair with their own so as to lengthen the latter without 
any marked evidence of the deception. Nevertheless the transverse 
fastenings with their gum attachments are present. In picture-writing 
this is shown upon the figure of a man by parallel lines drawn down- 
ward from the back of the head, intersected by cross lines, the whole 
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