Volume 03 Item 03: Walter Edmund Roth Bulletin No. 13 Fighting Weapons, 1904-1906 - Page 34

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At Princess Charlotte Bay.
Spears in general are called Kolka (KRA) and alkir (KWA).
The following may be noted

Four-pronged spears    KWA luyee, gurr-pan, KRA  larwa, Karanja, KLA pur-ta,  are employed for spearing fish. These implements are made from grass-tree (main shaft) and black-

Quartz-tipped  [illustration].  The shaft is usually made of Premna dallachyana, the head (comparatively flattened) of iron-wood.

Stugaree spear  [illustration]
      KRA  to-wara, KWA de-kir.  [illustration]
      KRA  challawang, KWA gu-laba   [illustration]
      KRA  ri-ang-pal  KWA  tri-angapa  [illustration]

Bamboo-cane (obtained from the Hann and Kennedy Rivers) shaft, and head of wattle.
      KRA  andarma  KWA bar-nga.

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