. Natives of Australia. orn on theseoccasions, and very commonly in other parts of Aus-tralia ; the men usually wear it permanently ; it is madeof human hair, sometimes of opossum hair, and is saidto measure three hundred yards in length sometimes ;a short one measured by Dr. Roth was twenty-six yardsin length. It is worn continuously for months at a time,and serves to suspend eagle-hawk feathers and othercorroboree ornaments in the case of the men. A is worn by males only at corroboree time andby females at all times ; it differs from the cord justdescribed in passing once only roun
. Natives of Australia. orn on theseoccasions, and very commonly in other parts of Aus-tralia ; the men usually wear it permanently ; it is madeof human hair, sometimes of opossum hair, and is saidto measure three hundred yards in length sometimes ;a short one measured by Dr. Roth was twenty-six yardsin length. It is worn continuously for months at a time,and serves to suspend eagle-hawk feathers and othercorroboree ornaments in the case of the men. A is worn by males only at corroboree time andby females at all times ; it differs from the cord justdescribed in passing once only round the body;according to Roth, its use is not unattended with dis-comfort, as it requires some force to get it on. The Victorian natives and those of the south gener-ally had more clothing. As an apron were worn piecesof skin cut into strips save the band at top which heldthe pieces together; this was double, being worn bothbefore and behind. The young women wore anopossum fur apron, and at the corroboree an emu Plate io. ^ o a; O o > DRESS 65 feather apron ; this was made by attaching feathers,six or more together, by sinews, cord, or fibre, to agirdle of kangaroo tail sinew; the feathers were long,and the apron hung from the waist to half-way downthe thigh. In South Australia the women had large,mat-like cloaks on their backs, from out of which theirchildren peeped when they were young. In SouthQueensland Lumholtz records that they had a sort ofcape of bark cloth, and Eyre found them using seaweedas a dress on the south coast. The commonest articleof clothing, however, was the opossum skin rug; inwinter the Victorian males, who wore only the apron insummer, took to a kangaroo skin rug, which was also thecovering of the women in wet weather. In addition tothese there were or are a number of ornaments in use. The hair itself was sometimes left in its naturalstate, save that it was singed or cut off with a musselshell. Other tribes made it into a cone-shapedchignon, into the c
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