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de seen, Idis metdod, amonx ids Naidu, is restricted, ap parently, to tdis section alone. It is also in nse b^ tds Ldasta. d^ds rnore common metdod b^ pnnctnrs was used b^ all tds rest ot tde Naidu people, disd-bones, pine-needles, or sdarpened dird-dones were used tor pricdinx tde slcin. ^.kter tde skin was pricded, tde pigment was rudded in, tde pricdinZ- instrurnent beinA also dipped in tde pigment wdils madinZ tds punctures, d'dis process is said to de rnucd rnore paintul tdan tds otdsr; and it is said tdat serious illness, or even dsatd, das kollowed its use in sorns cases. Ide operation was per- torrned, as a rule, at adout tde aZs ok ten or dktesn ^sars, and was perkorrned b^ an^ one, tdere beinA no special persons wdo were regarded as prodcient, and no ceremony apparently connected witd tde rnatter. 6irls were usually tattooed b^ an older woman, a relative it possidls; bovs were tattooed bv tde ^oun^er rnen. OwLimixos ^i^io NousLuoi^o Vr^xsins.— d'de douses and sdslters constructed b^ tde Naidu -were ok tkrss sorts' (i) tds larZs circular, send-subterranean, eartd-covered dancs or sweat douses, used also as regular dwellings; (2) tde sinallsr, less carekull^ rnade conical duts, built on tde surkacs ok tde ground, witd little or no excavation, and eitder wdoll^ witd- out, or witd but a partial, eartd cover; and (z) tde rude sununsr sdelters ok bounds and brancdss. Ide semi-subterranean, eartd-covered lodZe, known as burn, constituted a tvpe ok dwelling widelv spread, not onlv tdrou^dout tds Lalikornia arsa, but also tdrou^d a lar^s por tion ok tds interior plateaus and tde plains. Ok tde manv sued structures built b^ tde Naidu, but one now remains wdicd adderes at all closely to tde original tvpe. d'dis single remaining example is located at Odico (klates Xdlll, XdIV). ^.ltdou^d tde general plan ok tdese structures was evervwdsrs mucd alike, some dilksrencss mav be noted in tds tdrss different divisions ok tds Naidu. ^monA tde Xortdwestern section, tds mstdod and plan ok construction were as kollows: suitable sits beinA selected, wdere tds soil was sokt and no lar^e roc ds were to be encountered, an excavation was made to a deptd ok not over one metre, and over a circular arsa krom six to