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figures from photographs of Mrs T. Cochrane Smith, and recognised that, although 

 her facial characters partook largely of those of the Tasmanians, she was not a pure 

 aboriginal, but was of mixed blood. The lock was a distinct curl but was not 

 spirally twisted; its length was 8 to 9 cm., but when stretched it measured 

 11 '5 cm. ; its breadth was about 8 mm. The hairs varied in colour from a darkish 

 brown to pale brown, and some were greyish. 





Fig. 1. — T;isniauian, Truganini. 



No. 4. — 1 have subsequently obtained from another source, of undoubted authen- 

 ticity, some hairs of a male Tasmanian attached to a fragment of the scalp. The 

 hairs emerged close together and formed a lock 4 to 5 cm. long. They were distinct 

 and wavy for a short distance, but soon aggregated together and became arranged as 

 a compact spiral coil 2 cm. long, beyond which they again separated, and were curly 

 and frizzly at the free ends (fig. 2, B). A few delicate hairs, about 6 mm. long, 

 ended close to the scalp in pointed ends ; they were so short as not to reach the spiral 

 portion of the lock. The dried hair was deep brownish black in colour. 



The illustrations in Ling Roth's volume reproduced drawings and photographs 

 of aborigines in some of which the hair was short and the curly tufts were not unlike 



