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and similarly heavily impregnated with grease and ochre. This is pulled out 
SO that it becomes a double cord, and the two bights or looped ends are joined 
together at the back of the neck with hair-string, of which one long end may 
dangle down the back and have attached to it a Peragale tail tip, tied on 
with tendon. Usually two or three such rings are worn, so arranged, by placing 
one within the other and tying them together at opposite poles, that when they 
are pulled out they form, collectively, a band of four or six cords according to 
the number used. 
In another instance a long thin cord constructed in the same way has attached 
at each end a Peragale tail tip; this is looped round the neck and tied behind, the 
two long ends and tail tips, dangling down the small of the back. 
A neck ornament collected at Henbury, has a central core of human hair. 
This was, in a way similar to that described, bound round several times with rather 
thick fur-string, so that the whole formed a dense, thick cord, tapering a little to 
each end, fifteen inches long and three-quarters of an inch thick in the middle. The 
ends were tied together at the back of the neck by the continuation of the axial 
core of hair-string, to one long end of which was attached a Peragale tail tip. In 
this case the application of grease and ochre was excessive. The note made by 
Professor Spencer, who collected this specimen, is to the effect that this form 
contains the hair of a dead warrior and is put on when they “ want to fight and 
kill man dead.” If placed near a child it is supposed to do it harm. It was parted 
from reluctlantly and spoken of in a whisper. 
Females .—The neck-bands usually observed were similar to the form first 
described for meu. Occasionally, however, rather pretty nccklaci s are worn of 
the vermilion-red fresh, or yellow bleached, seeds of Stuart’s Bean Tree {Erythrina 
vespertilid). These are much more common north of the McDonnell Ranges, 
where the tree grows freely. The seeds are bored by burning witli some pointed 
instrument, usually in the transverse axis, but occasionally in the long axis. They 
are strung on to a long string which is worn round the neck in several coils. 
Head Ornaments. 
Males (Plate VI., Figs. 5, 5a ).—Light brown emu feathers are felt(;d into a 
compact, shallow, trough-shaped mass with open ends. It is possible there may 
be an intcnlor basis of grass stems, but as it would involve some damage I 
have not determined the point. On the concave surface of one specimen there 
are some indications of Triodia resin having been used to assist in the compacting 
