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PRINCIPAL SIR WILLIAM TUP.NER ON 



the specimen above described.* In others, again, the hair was much longer and 

 formed slender compact ringlets which hung pendulous in front of the forehead 



A B 



Fig. 2. — A, lock from Truganini ; B, from No. 4. 



and down the side of the ears and cheeks, t Several museums possess a cast of the 

 bust of a Tasmanian man with this character, and the Anatomical Museum of the 

 University is indebted to Professor Anderson Stuart for a copy of one4 In it 



Fig. 3. — Tasmanian, from cast of a bust. 



the ringlets were arranged so as to fall from the crown of the head, either 

 forwards, backwards or to the sides (fig. 3). They varied in length from 6 to 

 20 cm. Those in front concealed the forehead, and the longer ringlets, about 



* See pp. 9, 33, 41, and Appendix Q— Truganini. t See pp. 17, 25 of his work. 



J The cast is apparently a copy of a bust modelled by Dumoutier, Atlas to Voyage of Dumont d'Urville, 1830. 



