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15 inches to 18 inches long and from a quarter to three-eighths of an inch thick 
(Plate VI., Fig. 9). This is pointed at one end and scraped or shaved on four 
sides for the greater part of its length and in a direction away from the pointed 
end, the curled shavings being left attached to the shaft. Two of these are worn 
erect, one on each side of the head. 
Large plumes of the feathers of the eagle-hawk, and probably of other birds, 
are also worn in the waist-belt at the small of the back or in one or both 
armlets. As in the head plumes, the feathers are split longitudinally. The 
plumes frequently woim in the corrobboree caps are large bundles of emu feathers 
put together bouquet fashion, with the hafts enveloped in tubular sheaths of 
loose grass-stems, and bound round with fur-string, which may be smeared with 
white earth or ornamented with Portulaca down. Other varieties, however, are 
used as will be seen on reference to the plates. 
Females .—No similar ornaments were observed amongst the women. 
Nose OrnatJients. 
The form of ornament most frequently worn in the nose was a wing bone 
(radius) of the eagle-hawk (Aqidla aiidax), from which the two ends had been 
removed. One end is blocked with a plug of Triodia resin neatly rounded off, 
and inserted into the other is frequently seen a Peragale tail tip (Plate VI., Fig. G), 
or in one case it was the crest of Leadbeater’s Cockatoo. Such bones were also 
often used as a head ornament. Another form seen was the half of a longitudinally 
split bone of apparently the same nature, the ends being rounded off and the 
concave surface marked with groups of transverse or oblique cuts or scratches 
(Plate VI., Fig. 7). 
The upper part of the fibula of a kangaroo, from which the epiphysis has 
been removed and the lower end pointed, is also indiscriminately used either as 
a nose ornament or thrust into the hair, and not unfrequently a piece of ordinary 
or charred stick was inserted into the hole in the septum. As a rule, however, 
in ordinary life the perforation was unoccupied, particularly so in case of the 
women. 
Armlets. 
Males .—One or more rings made, as described under head-rings, either of 
hair- or fur-string, or of a mixture of the two, were frequently worn high above 
