Volume 03 Item 03: Walter Edmund Roth Bulletin No. 13 Fighting Weapons, 1904-1906 - Page 11

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 (g) Long proximal portion made of reed etc [?], the
timber used being immaterial, and a short black
                 [?]
palm distal ^  the latter giving the particular
name to the spear, do-war.  Same name and weapon
on the Bloomfield River.
                                           portion
(h) Short grass-tree proximal  ^  long Acacia or Erythro-
                             and
phloeum  [?]  distal;  wooden barb; called mu-ton gal. [?]
          incess            ^
The Pr   Charlotte Bay Natives have a special spear
            ^            
made with a proximal bamboo portion, and a
distal Acacia one; local names, KRA andarma, 
KWA. bar-nga; the bamboo is obtained from the 
Hauu [?] and Keuusday [?] Rivers, and forms a staple
article of barter eg. to the Koko- muiui [?]  of the Middle
                iver
Palmer R,  ^    etc. Here and there on odd spear ot two
is met with, not necessarily introduced from anywhere
else, which appears to have a local name, yet without 
sufficient history to allow of its being considered 
a typically local weapon. Such for instance, is
the mon-gil mon-gil of Cape Bedford, a long reed
proximal, and short hard-wood distal, the latter
armed with wooden [x] barbs placed in pairs al-
ternately on opposite sides.  Other examples are
the buronga'mo and o-wo'rn of the Middle Palmer
                          ivers
and Bloomfield R  ^   respectively, and from their very
nature require no detailed description.
                                         had
     which so far, I have not  ^   cause to mention,
A timber  ^  used for making spears with on the Middle
               iver
Palmer R  ^    is [the] Acacia lysiphloea, FvM (KMI. 
urr-te). Another *  is [the] Corypha australis, R. Br.
(Cabbage- tree Palm), the wood of which is split
and made into spear-heads on th Endeavour and
                   iver
Normanby R   ^  s.
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                                Mr  
* on the authority of  ^  E. Palmer