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around the edges, they afterwards, with the 
sharp edge of an assegai, go carefully oyer the 
surface, scraping away all the particles of skin, 
or meat, that may remain attached to it. These 
they mix with some of the blood of the ani- 
mal, and pound into a thick paste, adding 
a little finely powdered red clay. Haying 
worked this into a proper consistency, they 
next proceed to form, with their fingers, in clay, 
the model of some animal, generally an ox or 
a sheep ; and, haying moulded this to the size 
they wish their snuff box to be, and satisfied 
themselves as to the symmetry and resemblance 
of their quadruped to nature, they next place 
it in the sun, until it is baked perfectly hard. 
They then smear the paste which they haye 
prepared, oyer the surface of this model ; and, 
while it is soft, they go oyer it with the point 
of a needle, raising small portions of it, in imi- 
tation of the hair, or wool, of the animal, as the 
case may be. They then place it in the sun for 
two or three days, until it is again hard. When 
this has been attained, they cut a hole in the 
forehead of the mimic animal, about the size of 
a bullet ; and, with the point of a long kaross- 
needle, or a pointed piece of bone, they pick 
out, through this cayity, the baked clay, on 
which the blood has been formed. This being 
finished and a grotesquely caryed cork fitted 
