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it necessary to determine the nature of the fur in tlie case of each article, as 
different kinds seem to be used indiscriminately, but 1 will merely speak in 
general terms of fui’-string. 
Tendon .—The tail tendons of the red kangaroo, euro and wallaby—the size 
varying with the size of the animal—make excellent material for binding and 
splicing, and are used extensively for these purposes. I was told also that emu 
sinews were similarly used. Notwithstanding, however, the frequent use of 
tendons in these ways, T met with no instance where they were used for sewing 
and, indeed, INIr. Gillen informs me that no sewn articles are made. 
Head-rings. 
Males. — Several varieties were noticed, the commonest being constructed 
as follows:—A ring-shaped skein or single thickness of fur-string is, to use a 
nautical term, closely served with string of the same material, that is, the 
latter is wound spirally round the former so as completely to conceal the 
cential circular core. The whole is so heavily impregnated with grease and I'ed 
ochre that the constituents of the ring and the character of the string are not 
at once apparent; the ring look.s, in fact, as if it were a single solid cord of a 
thickness varying from a quarter to three-eighths of an inch. Of such rings one 
to four may be worn encircling the head from just above the forehead to below 
the occiput. 
In another kind several strands of fiu’-string are arranged side by side so as 
to form a flat band, these are covered with white earth or with an admixture of 
this and eagle-hawk’s down (A(/ni/a at/dax), which readily adheres to the furry 
surface. This band lies across the top of the forehead, and the ends are tied 
below the occiput. Sometimes the head-band is a simple coil of fur-string. 
Females .—One or, less frequently, two or three rings similar to those first 
described for males are worn, but not so generally as in that sex. In one case the 
form was strap-like, being composed of several strands veiy much flattened and 
lying close together. The two ends of the strap were tied beneath the occiput. 
Occasionally a similar strap-like frontal band was encrusted with white earth, 
and in other cases it consisted of a skein of many coils of fur-string, either plain 
or red-ochred. 
Neck-bands. 
Males .—In the simplest form this consisted of a ring of about a quarter 
of an inch or less in thickness, constructed after the manner of the head-rings, 
