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742 CH.

NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA

the opossum sewed together with sinew. They did not dress the skins but merely dried them, and to make them more pliable cut markings on the skin side by means of

FIG. 50—MARKINGS WHICH WERE MADE UPON THE SKIN SIDES OF OPOSSUM SKINS BY THE KIRNAI WHEN THEY SEWED THEM TOGTHER AS COVERINGS.

mussel shells (nanduwung). These markings are called waribruk, and each man had his own. In Fig. 50 are given examples of the waribruk used by men known to me.

Flattening the Nose

A curious practice obtains in some tribes, namely, the