1224 ON TWO WAX FIGURES OBTAINED FROM AN ABORIGINAL CAMP, 
which also “none of them had mouths f (see p. 202, figs. 1, 2 and 4 ; 
also a figure at p. 214); and “from the mild expression of their 
countenances," Grey concluded that the figures were those of females. 
There can be no doubt about the sex of the figures now figured. 
They are, as I before stated, modelled from native bee.s’-wax, 
with which has been mixed some of the oxide of iron so 
frequently used by them for colouring and ornamenting their 
weapons and bodie.s. 
The figures measure six and eight inches long respectively, and 
nearly seven-eighths of an inch wide about the position of the hips; 
the heads are ill-formed, and have genuine uncurled human hair 
stuck into the wax in a kind of a fringe round the lower circum- 
ference of the head, which hangs down over the shoulders, reaching 
in front to near the positions of the sockets for the eyes. The eyes 
in each figure are conspicuous features; the right eye of one of the 
figures (PI. XXV.) has a black glass Vjead stuck into it to more 
thoroughly repi’esent the organ; the orbits are also well-defined and 
arched above in a very natural way, and verge into a rather carefully 
modelled nose which is formed with well-shaped no.strils and a 
tip. But here the features end ; there is no mouth, no depression 
of any kind to indicate its existence ; the chin and line of the 
lower jaw are also undefined, and the neck is anything but swaii- 
like, being almost as thick as the body, and verges slopingly into 
the shoulders, which are not prominent in consequence. 
There are no arms, and the gradual tapering of the body from 
the neck downwards shows that in both instances they have been 
intentionally omitted. The breasts are evidently intended to 
I’epresent tho.se of a female of advanced life, large and pendulous. 
One of the two models (PI. xxvi) has three rows of transverse 
tattoo scars represented. One centre I’ow is composed of six of these 
transverse scars, the right row of six, and the left of five. These 
rows of transverse tattoo incisions are extended down over the 
front of the abdomen of both figures ; there are as many as eight 
or nine on the figure which is tattooed over the breast, but in the 
