| Show 20 f fr f eN c I r r They Thoy ao 00 Naked and ana Wear Scars Scara aa 38 a Na Nn I r THE T 11 t AUSTRALIAN A 1 US LS T TRILl R A L 14 IAN Al tIe tivo Women and amI Horrible of ofA but No Old They I I fAItS A II B II W S Ways Was Wn of Catching Atita aa os n nil on How They Hunt Not ol Emus Kangaroos They Arc Mo ro tho the of the Australian of Can Customs of a Race loce Which is and anth Witch Doctors The TIc Queer Habits Death and font fast Passing Away 4 11 woy 2 1 u S WI IS I L FRANK G CARPENTER l it are art now less he than borl left in A and aud nd of tuNe these are ir in the of 01 J where thu letter leUr I 3 U native W IA Toll Tas Tasmania dated 1 I saw row W no mania manti There sr are only ody Ohl 45 In Inthe Inthe Inthe the tatO of Victoria and only on If Wales about In Ne New South Beeth Australia hs been lens heMS Il 11 developed i t tIun the eastern ea tern states tat It has liaa U IS while the vast desert regIons fe of oC tefa Australia are tC said to have lt like These of ot are not absolutely accurate Tile The live In the lWE anti and an In 11 iUs us UI of unexplored th vast vt region reton no one ens on can tell bow how many man there iu The Ih only pure native 1 have seen were wire Iti In tom some of ot the towns along lIon on the northeast ast cost coast of Queensland and an my Information cuma largely ly from travel travelers i explorers and the colonial govern governments j I ers e ments tany of ii If my have hae haet been I Iten furnished by hy th tb I h governments of ot otI t I Queensland and New South Wales alel from the tha collections collection taken by the thu th om omi i ell explorers HOW TIm THIS 1 LOOK wo woI The people l here lIrE rail call the I WW and black fellows They use ulle u e the tho word negro but bUI the tho few rel natives I hue have seen en were chocolate rather than black Their hair wa curly cur curI hut but not woolly and they had not 1101 the thick lips IIII nor the tho very Hat flat noses Of the tho African Some of or th i aborigine are quite line fine they ore Ire straight and 1 well formed farmed although generally lean and scrawny In Towns yule I 1 nw AI n a 1 native girl Irl about eighteen years earL old who looked more like a 1 mu mulatto latto than a n negro She had high cheek check bones bope p I slightly receding chin Mil i 11 li ami 1 u It n r wai U and i a 0 1 n me ng i i n ou tn ami a n n ner n cr unu un uni i glossy gloss smooth anti and fine Still she w wa wah 1111 i iby by h 11 no bad hail looking for a gin i and would have paused muster I n 8 mixed crowd of ot colored people from our southern states This girl had hial on 00 European l clothes In n the thie Interior parts paris of ot north I the tho natives wear no clothes whatever i Both hoth men onti women go 10 naked or al It have only a few tess fl ornaments In theli thelt end and our oars with lIh perhaps a i string or Dr two about the waist In ir northwestern Queensland the natives tile tue belts of oC human hunan hair during certain ceremonies and they often strip thou their hi with They The sometime have arRAS necklaces And aM nd string airing ol of akin about their shoulders They tic tie hands bands ban about their hair to kerr keel It from Crom falling Into their eyes 1111 and for frn forthe I Ithe the samo reasons soak ak It with fat fator Cn fator t I or clay cIa Hair graso Is everywhere pro profusely used nd it Is III not uncommon lor or a n native to give she himself a n coat cont o ot flab oi nIl whenever he can cnn pet ret ot It This envelopes him In a smell which IK III a very ery offensive to Europeans European The methods s of ot vary The hair hairIs Is often bound up with cloths and antI the knuckle bones Jane of ot tho tha kangaroo nrc no on fastened to It that they haw hang down lawn over the tho thi oars enra In 11 some Rome parts kangaroo kan tooth teeth Rte are fastened to the forelocks 10 a that they the hang down nail rest reat on the forehead between the About Port Darwin in northwestern Australia the men m n and nn women use II nose Pine pin some of ot which are Ire ten Inches long hang The no nose MAe MAeIA e eIs Is IA pierced In the center and atul being pulled down these are nrc thrust through so that they stand out for Cor five Inches on each ench side aide the nostrils Some of oC the pins pin nrc made of turkey bones bonea anti and others of ot kangaroo or emu hence bones Sometimes parrot qUills are arc used the feathers extending nut out nuton outon on cm each side the nostrils Some of o the tim natives pIeTe their ear care using kan kiln kangaroo paroo bones bone n Ill as plugs SCARS SCAnS AS AH ORNAMENTS OnNA Among Amon the queer liter forms of oC ornamentation tation are the tim scarring and cutting of the body Nearly every native nate ha till bite II more nore or less lees wars ocara upon him and the bigger the scars seara the th better hetter they tile like It I refer to ornamental scars scare for Cor many of ot the women ate Ol scarred by the l punishment upon them theta by byI I their As to the ornamental I title this Is he done iono as n a matter motter of oC Tiff skin is ha voluntarily cut with flints or shells helig powdered char charcoal charcoal coal cool Is to dusted In and the wounds are nrc kept open ollen for months they ther heal C they leave leavo s on the lie hotly body na RII thick na ns your our finger Tho j IarA Are found 1 on the back awl and host hest and anil on the bl lii bleeps muscles They fh are arc ar sometimes on in p the and stomachs Among other tribes little pieces of nr skin akin are cut ut out alit outto I i to make wars seara the victims yelling with 1 the operation i As All to the scars scare of ut if tilE the women those these p pI I C ore lire often matte made by the men In III way Va of I punishment They look lonk upon the wo women women men tileR as ftC their slaves and when angry i club them and cut them with their I II I I i HI t II IH Hu Hul III I H HH J JJ J ji I 1 1 I 1 I r X f If 1 I I J Jt Ji r 1 j Ij 1 i t 1 i 1 J 4 tr I J J J 1 i iL i th t h j L til il 1 THEY WEAR STICKS S THROUGH THEIR 1 NOSES 4 1 1 Tram Prom a photograph takou for tor tho thu News by Mr lr Carpenter IH H H H I tomahawks s and spears If the woman In Iii 1 killed It makes little difference tot for she i H looked upon ullon as no the property ol ot the man who supports her hor and a n man may do o what he likes with his own ownA ownA A CHANCE FOR FOIt TIlE THE NEW WOMAN WOMA WO IAN There Is no place In the tho lie world where llin new woman could work to better than halt among these glues gille 1 I doubt whether there thelo arc people In the wilds of or Adieu who thIo treat the tim women BO so bally badly The rhe wife Is the play piny plaything thing anti and an slave klave of oC her husband She Bho hue has hll no zio rights that any Ill man llIan Is In bound boun bounto to respect re and atul It If caught aught away from rain home any all man mali will maltreat her Ae As Asa Aea J Jn a n daughter laugh sho shio Is lif sold or given glen away by b her Iler hither futher or brothers nini after marriage she site Is a 11 drudge and a slave alavo The rhe husband hu lJ nd can lend or give lila his wife wiC away He Ite can cnn forbid her speaking 10 tO 0 any nn other man nian ami In III some HOinG tribe she I is not n flowed no to exchange a n word worl with her grownup brothers She I ii often a 1 bride at the age a e of oC ten tell and there are few Cew native girls who pro ore not married before they leach Imoh 1 I There are I nm am told ninny many bachelor hut but no old olti mold maids for Cor even cIon an ugly II I girl can con work rind and a man has hall lie tho right rl ht to us many wives as liS he can cnn get He lIe leaves nil all his hit work to lila his wIves am and the more wives he ht has hall tho the richer he ha I When a n man dies his widows go to hits his oldest oIliest brother brothel who vIto ho can cati keep koel them or dispose 11 poo of ot them as na he lie pleases The Theelder Theelder elder brother hina tho thia right to give away any or trade oft off his slaters Allters the tho same right belongs to the father who often trades the tamales females of oC the family for Cor wives for his sons eons CANT COMPLAIN Ion FOrt WANT OP Or WORK The native natle woman oman of Australia cant complain that nil all the th professions of oC oCher her tribe are not open to her bel She Site does oe all the work from building tho the houpe to getting tin tilt food and nursing the baby Most of or the tribes are nomadic They ruiey build little shelters of ot bark or skins wherever they camp starting a aM now M village at each stopping place In traveling the women carry curry all nil the belongings be bo longings of oC the this family faintly They rhey are arc laden down don like pack horses and walk along bent over behind their husbands who perhaps carry arry nothing but their boom boomerangs I Or RS and 1111 clubs AH As A soon as lS they the come Cille c to a 1 new neV camp the tho woman illS cuts the hark bark and builds tile tt hut lint Sho SItu then goes Roes out nut Slid and digs loots picks fruit and nimbi climbs the time trees tree to chop chol out the thelara lara larni of worms which she cooko fur lire breakfast Taut She often otten carrion her child with her hor while at nt this hue work laying It on the ground na RI she Ihl digs She elite cuts this the wood mind carries the watt water r nail and when nm she falls Calls behind sill sho Is l ii usually sun SUfi of at ofa ata 1 a whipping An A n 8 result of such urh treat treatment meat ment she hp ages agoa rapidly her hair grows gray and her face faco wrinkles and ami as os a n ni nH i H IH I l 1 H l H w t ti i I f Ii 1 t t t I r J J f fl l I f i I y 4 T I i 11 1 I j t T 1 1 I i I f r t I I s Af Il I r 1 f I 1 i f I I f y T Tj j M MIr Ir li T J 1 I oJ 1 t I eel eelI 2 I I fk i x r rJ 1 i J I I I l j c I i 1 I r J JI 1 I J I I I r I THE BOOMERANG BOOMER NG I Ij i Tn r m a sap iian 0 lakes too fir tir tu 15 X New by Mr I tr Carpenter c f j I H H MH t I IH III H l a i HII iIi rule she dies at lit about thirty Een Even tin tho men mon seldom live hive to be more mort than titan lIft WHAT THE Im NATIVES EAT The lives of ot the time aborigines are short by b exposure and diet In point ol oi Intelligence ence they me nrc nl said to be Je ns nil low tile the they OH nl any an people of the lie world live and nit more moro like animals than human beings Their food Is largely vegetable Including all sorts of oC root roots They The thrash seeds out of kinds of ot grasses and collect weeds wee s which they eat as os we do water cressand crest cress and amid lettuce One of their favorite dishes Is wild honey which they thoy find In Inthe Inthe the time hollow trees They collect wild fruits anti their bread Is made of oC grass I I seeds Hee s moistened mind ground between stones Into u Lt 1 Hour flour This Thill Hour Is then made mittle Into dough ough and eaten enten either cooked or raw Among the curious viands of at which they the arc are fond Cond are nrc ants ante worms and snakes s There are ants all nil over ocr Aus Australia us trails and certain varieties of ot thorn them are nrc caught by the aborigines The Tho native stands standa upon an on nut ant lull hill and mid stamps with his hits feet Ceet whereupon the ants run rut up lip bin hiis logs legs After Her his hi shanks lire are well veIl coated he lie scrapes them off oft and eats them thom The larger kinds of ants are nrc roasted or dried In the sun SUIt Another delicacy Is the beetle whIch Is consumed 1 both bolh in the worm or larva Inna and In the time matured Insect Tho TIme worms are picked out of oC the lie rotten trees am and cooked In lit ashes 10 n I lie Ill who have eaten them say they are not nol at nt nil all bad and that they the look and taste much like an omelet Snakes of oC nil all kinds are caught and roasted and also allo lizards especially the time Iguana Time The Iguana Is ha an enormous lizard It tl Is IK eaten throughout South America and has llesh much like that thai of oC a young youn chicken Its It eggs are a n delicacy and are greedily devoured by bythe bythe bylie the lie savages The fhe natives are ore also fond of grass gras grasshoppers gra s shoppers hoppers and locusts There ore are some Bome sometimes the lie times timeR of or the tho latter when whon women gather Ihor them thorn by hr the time basketful and the people have hv a great feast They the theOre first the lie grasshoppers Into lain Ore fire to burn oft off the wings and legs I rs and Ind then drag thorn them out and roast each carh grasshopper separately Tho The flesh so CO prepared tastes lastes not unlike roasted chestnuts AS AND TRACKERS The Tim Australians Australian ten me IlIO that the na no natives lIes tives have havo moro more ability than Is sell gen generally I orally They rimey show allow the evl I i hence dence of oC powers and are ale much uch excellent hunters and trackers that tile they are largely employed ns as such by bythe b bythe the whites Here In Queensland they take the place IlIac that bloodhounds hail had hadIn In slavery days day They can an trail rail any anything anything thing They rhey follow tallow criminals on horse horseback mack back and anil almost t Invariably catch them Thor Thieve are now such men on the Queensland police force torce each of oC whom receives a 1 salary of oC about 10 cents alay a al lay l y and his hi food A As hunters they the catch the largest cst HAme without firearms They trap trail emus minting hunting them thorn with native dogs hiving thorn Into nets and catching them hem hem In pitfalls pitfall In Tn the wilds willi the station sl ton themselves near tho the water vater holM holes and wRit Walt until the emu omes down to drink They then Items rig rl rigIn jp up a net Us its path drive drle It In Inana ana ind when It lies hat become ome ties des raw It h with It t AI I h nr n ii i l ill y IL u nun WILLI I III STU 8 They have a call by which they Imitate th the voice of ot the mu as a II our mountaineer In 10 that of ot time the turkey In wild turkey hunting The emu eniti whistle Is made by b bl l atm a III of or hollow log leg In such mien a way say hat t It U forth Corth n a pe pI peculiar culiar a man nian will cover oer himself with buh bushes v ant I nl thus hue sneak upon the emu and anI kill him himI Kangaroos II I are caught ht In nets andare and are also run down with dogs of all allkind 11 The native Iron tran Ira birds kinds kind In all wis of or ways WI They Tile The Ther ritch r th by nn nets nor lh m as III thet sit nit about the water Th fhY v co en fl Into bite the till weter with h n about taste head and sneak n tip lIn n the eil 1111 i 1 cranes which lire are swimming there 1111 They also catch atch fish with n nets K Krind rind nail rol on the water with certain plants plant and nI the fl fish h ns M n the IhlI nue n to time the th Th They v frim r t h Ii th tho an getting the fl 11 fim h under tinder nr r t In such rn UI ea the nail e eHl Hl the fl fIsh h hy by biting r ly in n n nn lIs n h Jn in Jut t back tk of It the th lie head It He Tie mIt it II t oat flat UIn iks ili II bank that hut I It II will not Its y hink 1101 tnt the t th water ater and a 1111 eels CHI about f for Cor Cormore r more TUB OP OI C m TS Th T There r la Is no JIO doubt but that the Aug UI ug UIt rann t aborIgines ure are more or lets Time TIlt re snow chew that they hey hive bu always be n so 50 and that the time I eating or of human hash exists In some Ome art o lit at Australia today Carl Cirl Lum bolt holtz t tl to whom horn I T am Indebted for ter seine of th the Information In this letter has hAil written K a book entitled Among the Cannibals picturing his travels travo through the camp of oC he the aborigines aborigine the nt records recOrd also alia Instances of cannibalism About Aboul tolo years rall ago allo a n man named K I lI wards ml saw the natives toasting |
