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they kept turning round between the thumb and finger of
one hand & feeding the wool with the other = when they had
got to the length of their arm they twisted the yarn round the
stick & started again untill all the wool was twisted up
The Womans hair was let grow any way - a regular
mop = but the Men took lots of trouble over theirs = First, they
drew the hair tight back from the forhead[sic] and up
from the back of the head, then in the center of that _ on
the crown of the head they put a pad of Teatree bark
then they cut a good sized bunch of the Tussuky
Grass - a good sized bunch, and placed that on the
Teatree pad - drew all their hair up and bound
it up tight with Possum wool string = this was when
they were full dress = at other times the hair was allowed
to grow as a mop only the forhead net was alwas[always] worn
I have seen Bony = who was a great swell, with his
hair done up in this way nearly three feet from his
head = he would have a daub of raddle on his nose
from the bridge to the point = and a patch of red on
each cheek = a tomahawk, a nulanulla, & a Boomarang
or two, stuck in his belt, a wamera & a spear or two in
his hands = he then was ready for a friendly visite[visit] or
for a fight = which ever turned up = [You never saw a
Black in those times unarmed = they always had a
tomahawk in the belt, what ever they were about, and
mostly a munanulla = they were of diferent[different] shapes = the
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