Volume 03 Item 03: Walter Edmund Roth Bulletin No. 13 Fighting Weapons, 1904-1906 - Page 23

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[The first of these again is a plain stick* gradually tapering a little from proximal to distal, two feet long & raddled.  At the proximal end a tassel of human hair "ringlets", each ringlet a two-ply twist; it is prevented from falling slipping off by a washer of Gum cement around the stick, but hidden by the tassel. The distal peg is of wood held in position by string lashing, gum-cement covered. T
The second implement** is narrow, rigid, & lath-like, about three quarters of an inch in thickness, plano-convex or slightly bi-convex, & two feet ten inches in length by one & three quarters wide. The proximal is cut out for the reception of the hand of the spearman, but affording a very small grasp.The wooden peg at the distal end is larger and obtuse & held in position by a gum cement doubtless lashed on beneath. The whole of both surfaces is highly raddled & decorated with broad pipe clay transverse bands at both ends, followed after intervals the whole of the intermediate surface being pipe clay cross-hatched. Ed.]

* spencer & Gillen
** "Bilelta" - see Etheridge - Proc. Linn. Soc. N S Wales, (2), vii, 189
    [Li] xi. Luscham - Bastian Festschrift,  1896, pl. x. [??]