EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
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16. Mona — net cap to confine the hair of young men of 
opossum fur. 
17. Korno — widow’s mourning cap made of carbonate of 
lime, moulded to the head; weight 8 Jibs. 
18. Dog’s-tail; worn as an appendage to the beard; which 
is gathered together and tied in a pigtail. 
Plate XL — Weapons. 
1. Spear barbed on both sides, of hard wood; 10J feet 
long; used in war or hunting. 
2. Similar to the last but only barbed on one side; used 
for same purposes. 
3. Kar-ku-ru — smooth spear of hard wood; 10J feet; 
used for punishments; as described page 222; also for 
general purposes. 
4. Short; smooth; hard wood spear; 7i feet long, used to 
spear fish in diving. 
5. Reed spear with barbed hardwood point, used for war 
with the throwing stick — the way of holding it, and 
position of the hand are shewn. 
6. Hardwood spear with grass-tree end, 8 feet long, used 
with the throwing stick for general purposes. 
7. Hard wood spear with single barb spliced on, 8 feet 
long, used from Port Lincoln to King George’s Sound 
for chase or war, it is launched with the throwing 
stick. 
8. Ki-ko — reed spear, hard wood point, 6 to 7 feet long, 
used with the throwing-stick to kill birds or other 
game. 
9. Hard wood spear, grass-tree end, barbed with flint, 
used with the throwing-stick for war. 
10. The head of No. 9 on a arger scale. 
11. The head of No. 1 on a larger scale. 
