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a Kanaka labourer who had worked on a sugar plantation in Queensland. It was 

 17 inches in height and had projected upwards as a top-knot from the crown 

 of the head.* It consisted of 834 slender locks tied together about the middle 

 with a tape to form a bundle. The hairs in each lock, where it had been cut 

 from the scalp, were free, but each lock was then tightly wound by a narrow 

 band of vegetable fibre for several inches, beyond which the hairs again separated, 

 were loosely spiral and frizzly at their free ends. The hair next the scalp and 

 that enveloped by the fibre was brownish black in colour, but the frizzly ends 

 were auburn-tinted, apparently bleached (fig. 8). The locks closely resembled No. 1 



Fig. 8. — Probably from native of New Hebrides. No. 8. 



in the Revd. James Lawrie's collection from the New Hebrides. In their arrange- 

 ment as a top-knot, the coiffure to some extent resembled the one figured by 

 Dr Prichard,! said to be from a native of Ombai,} in which, however, the hair 

 did not seem to be dressed in separate locks, though frizzly at the free ends. I 

 did not learn the name of the island of which the Kanaka labourer was a native, but 

 Mr Lawrie stated in his paper that the New Hebrides is a source of supply for the 

 Queensland plantations. 



In his account of the people of New Caledonia, an island to the west of the New 

 Hebrides, Captain Cook recognised their resemblance to the aborigines of Tanna, 



* Report, British Association, Edinburgh meeting, p. 906, 1892. 



+ Natural History of Man, vol. ii. p. 441, 1855. j Ombai is an island, east of Java and west of Timor. 



