NOTES ON TWO WAX FIGURES OBTAINED FROM, 
AN ABORIGINAL CAMP AT MIRIAM YALE 
NEAR THE HEAD OF BAFFLE CREEK, ROCK- 
HAMPTON. 
By J. C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S. 
Plates xxv. and xxvi. 
The figures from which these drawings are taken were presented 
by me to the Australian Museum in 1864, where they are still 
to be seen in good preservation. They were found in an aboriginal 
camp which had been suri)rised by a troop of native police for the 
purpose of arresting one of the tribe, who had committed some 
wrong on the horned property of a squatter. The whole congre- 
gation in the camp at once fled on seeing the police approach, 
except two small children who were unable to give any information 
about these figures ; as seen in the drawing, they have been 
attached to slender sticks by means of which they were stood 
erect, the sticks being stuck into the ground. 
They were sent to me under the supposition that they were dolls 
made for ornament by the younger female members of the tribe, 
modelled from dark soiled native bees’-wax, the honey from 
which had been squeezed and sucked out. On receipt of them I 
was surprised to find that the figures although wonderfully well- 
modelled, especially as to the amorous aspects of life, were 
both devoid of any rudiments of mouths or arms, a circumstance 
which the more impressed me, as I had then only recently been 
reading Grey’s work entitled “Joixrnals of two Expeditions of 
Discovery in N.W. and Western Australia during the years 1837, 
1838 and 1839,” in which he has recorded an account of figures 
of human beings he had discovered on the walls of caves, and in 
