Volume 03 Item 03: Walter Edmund Roth Bulletin No. 13 Fighting Weapons, 1904-1906 - Page 53

[Page 53]

[This is a page of drawings of weapons and shields with each drawing given a figure number. 

Figure number 25 shows the base of a tree with  markings showing where the curved weapon is cut out. Figures 26 to 29 are drawings of the curved weapon with one looking like a boomerang.  the other three are not sufficiently curved and are more like clubs.

Figure 30 is a drawing of a base of a tree with buttressed roots.  Part of a root with a curved shape seems to be marked to show how it can be cut for a curved shape eg boomerang or club.  Another buttressed root is marked out to show how a shield is cut.

There is then a drawing of two shields that has been deleted with a curly pencil line and below is a diagram (Fig 31) that seems to be a shield shown from above.

Below these pencil drawings are drawings of three shields (Figs 32, 33, 34) with beautiful markings/patterns coloured in using the traditional indigenous colours that we now know well ie the red, yellow and black shown on the Aboriginal flag.]