Volume 03 Item 03: Walter Edmund Roth Bulletin No. 13 Fighting Weapons, 1904-1906 - Page 10

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they are fixed with gum cement - of which a
certain length is attached to the spear head, with        4
a slot run longitudinally up it by means of a thumb
nail - and there secured with heat and careful manipulation
[this line of writing is indecipherable. and was originally crossed-out by the writer]
of the fingers. [their axes] are not at right angles with that of -------[refer to paragraph, isolated
                                                                                                          on LHSide, 5 lines down]                                  The Middle [Palmes]. blacks call such a weapon
                                            proximal portion
tural, and manufacture the shaft ^ from Clerodendron 
                                                                                                   other [?]
the spear,but            |    inerme   (KMI. ochicilla). At Pn {?] Charl  ^  Bay, the proximal [?]
project [?] forwards. |                                                      man
 would seem             |    is usually made from Premna Dallacbyana Bsutt [?] the  
at [?] the flakes         |   distal from Erythrophaoeum [?] Baboucherii [?] F u M : local
increase [?] in size    |   names, KRA to-ril , KWA. war-pa.
proportionally [?]       |                                                  (Fig 8)
they reach                 |     (d). Multiple pronged fish spear ^ usualy 4 [crossed out] four prongs
he [?]spear-tip           |     usually make from Bemna Dallacbyana Bsutt [?] the
                                        distal from Erythrophaoeum Raboucherii, [?]  F u M : local 
                                         names, KRA  to-ril, KWA war-pa.
                                                                                          (Fig 8)
                                        (d). Multiple pronged fish spear    ^    usually 4 [crossed out] four prongs
                                          n------[?] (distal pieces) morticed into the proximal,    
                                         with a wooden barb on each prong, called yin-ba.
                                                                      River [?]
                                          On the Bloomfield   ^    these fish-spears, Known
                                                      are
                                           yirmba  ^  made of some light wood, preferably
                                                               (grass-tree) and
                                          Xanthoriboea  ^ are said to have been imported  
                                          here originally, although they were certainly 
                                          manufactured in the district for some time
                                                                                                     [?]          
                                           previous to 1885 *. At  Pr.... [?] Charl ,  Bay, these weapons
                                           are made from [indecipjerable] grass-tree and 
                                           black-palm (proximal and distal respectively),
                                           the latter material being bartered into these parts
                                           from the Mc Toor [?] River; the barbs are either of 
                                           hard-wood or bone.' the blacks throw these spears
                                           either at the fish in situ [?], or else, as I have often
                                           watched them do in a muddy water-hole, aim
local name         |                 here and there in the water on the chance
are KWA - lu-yu |.             
gurrpan, KRA     |------------- ----------------- |
lawa, Karania     |               of hitting one; ^.The Middle Palmer River natives
KLA, pur-ta         |               make the proximal portion of bamboo, which 
                                            is bartered from the Pr [?] Charl Bay blacks, and
                                            use bone-barbs; they call this spear urr-che'-ra
                                            (e) Long grass-tree proximal, and short Acacia 
                                                              Birth., [?]           with
                                             holocarpa, ^  distal portion  ^   wooden barb: Known 
                                             as wur-poi.  Similar name on the Bloomfield River
                                             (f) Similar to preceding, but the grass-tree is replaced 
                                              by reed; called nambar.
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                                                                                                 Opr [?]
                        Roth ---O Sect 43 Ball. 8 -  *on the authority of  ^  Rl. Hislop [?]

 

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