Handbook to the ethnographical collections . stic ofthe Australian peoples. Clothing, with the exception of bark belts (fig. 87), is taken almostexclusively from the animal kingdom. In either case it is reducedto an absolute minimum, and by no means regarded as consists mainly of fringes or tassels of string made from thehair of the opossum ; or girdles of similar material, or of humanhair. The southern natives (Victoria) are the most clothed ;among these, aprons of hide and feathers are found, as well asrugs of ojiossum-skin (fig. 88). The hair is either left to grownaturally or
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . stic ofthe Australian peoples. Clothing, with the exception of bark belts (fig. 87), is taken almostexclusively from the animal kingdom. In either case it is reducedto an absolute minimum, and by no means regarded as consists mainly of fringes or tassels of string made from thehair of the opossum ; or girdles of similar material, or of humanhair. The southern natives (Victoria) are the most clothed ;among these, aprons of hide and feathers are found, as well asrugs of ojiossum-skin (fig. 88). The hair is either left to grownaturally or confined by a net or band: ochre is often thicklyapplied. Forehead-ornaments of kangaroo teeth are found, andn( cklaces of the same, or of fur-string or sections of reed. Canearmlets occur in the central region. The wearing of nose-pins is AUSTRALIA 107 almost iiniversfil, as well as the scarring of the body. The latteris largely ceremonial, and, like the extraction of one or moreincisor teeth, an accompaniment of initiation-ceremonies, The. Fio. 87.—Bark belt worn by mon. North-West Australi;
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