Box 5/Item 21: Notebook re. Aboriginal languages, sign language, songs and tribes, undated - Page 24

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Groote Island natives have few

short cicatrices over deltoide and

one or two thin horizontal scars

across chest.

Wear long beards upon chin

other hairs pulled out from lips and cheek.

(sketched image)

Dug out canoes with long

low horizontal sails

(sketched image)

Puluc tassels, fur, fibre, paperbark.

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