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hy Mr. Richard Helms, who accompanied the Elder Exploring 

 Expedition, 1891-2, and he only speaks of seeing two or three 

 Everard men when passing by the ranges. So I hope the 

 following notes may be of scientific interest. 



Quite a, number of both sexes and all ages were met with, 

 and I was able to spend several days (without any white 

 companion) in their camps, which enabled me to gather much 

 information that otherwise could not have been obtained. Both 

 men and women were well grown and nourished. Most of the 

 men bore many scars upon the chest, shoulder blades, back, and 

 arms. The women also have these scars, but in a lesser degree. 

 Both sexes are destitute of covering, moving about in a nude 

 state ; the men very often have a twisted hair-cord round their 

 waists, which acts as a means of carrying small articles, and 

 also when drawn tightly round the body will reduce the pangs 

 of hunger. They do not try to cover the person in any way, 

 but the men, both young and middle-aged, were often seen 

 with eagle-down twisted into the pubic hairs ; in some instances 

 it was left the natural colour, while in others it was stained 

 with red ochre ; this ornamentation did not in any way cover 

 the penis, nor was it intended to do so, I am sure. 



The young bucks spend much of their time in the braiding 

 of their hair, which is drawn tightly back from the forehead, 

 then done up in a chignon and bound tightly together with 

 human-hair string, often being decorated with brown hawks' 

 feathers. This chignon stands out ten or twelve inches at the 

 back. In most cases the women's hair was fairly short ; this 

 being due, most likely, to their having to supply the material 

 for hair string. In many cases the young women brought the 

 hair forward and tied it up in a small knob over the forehead, 

 with many bands of hair string bound round and round the 

 head. 



It was very surprising to find that many of the women 

 carried live wild dogs round their waists — the fore paws and 

 nose being grasped in one hand, while the hind paws and tail 

 are in the other ; the extremities of the dogs, in some cases, 

 almost meeting in front. As far as the limited knowledge of 

 the language would allow, it was ascertained that all women 

 who were barren or had ceased bearing children were required 

 to nurse a dog in this way. 



There were a good many children in arms, which were all 

 females with the exception of one ; these children, as well as 

 others of various ages, were all well nourished, being plump, 

 and jolly. 



All the men are circumcised after the age of about eighteen 

 or nineteen years. One example of slitting the urethra came 

 under notice, but this does not seem a regular custom. They 



