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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...in with tussets of grass, &c., but the whole is usually covered with sheets of bark kept in position by the agency of heavy boughs resting on top (Fig. 250). The gundi floor is apparently flush with the ground-surface: nt any rate, no earth is certainly dug out of it. Any of the sticks, primary or secondary, forming the framework of the hut are known as ta-li. 161. In theLeichhardt-Selwyn District the Kalkadoon name a hut wul-li-be-ri (cf. Pitta-Pitta term wul-lo-a). It is built very much like the second variety of vrinji-winji mentioned as being met with at Boulia. Either a markedly-bent treetrunk or a low-lying horizontal branch is utilised against which to fix the vertical saplings and boughs (Fig. 251): the latter, of course, are wider apart below than above, where they practically touch. Where these sticks (koong-ga) are fixed into the ground a mound of earth is collected all round, which forms the limit of the surface-space to be enclosed: from this ring of earth is piled up bundle upon bundle of grass, bushes, fcc, twined and intertwined among the slanting sticks, which are thus assisted in maintaining their position. Occasionally, bark may be seen superimposed in addition. CHAPTER VII. PERSONAL ORNAMENTATION AND DECORATION. MURAL PAINTING, Ac. Contenrs.--Section 162. Method of Working-up the Hair. 163. Decoration and Ornamentation of the Head. 104. Feather-tufts. 165. Knuckle-bones. 166. Tooth Ornaments. 167. Artificial Whiskers. 168. Head-net. 169. Forehead-net. 170. Fillets. 171. Circlets. 172. Spiral Band. 173. Wooden Cross-piece: Handkerchiefs. 174. Ornamentation of the Face. 175. Piercing of the Nose. 176. Piercing of the Ears. 177. Avulsion of the Teeth. 178. The Beard. 179. Grass Necklaces. 180. Opossum-string Necklaces. 181. Armlets, Ank...

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