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invariably made of iron-wood. The haft in these weapons may either be a molo shell, or else a piece of laywer-vine, or else a piece of lawyer-vine bent double. [drawing representative of description provided]
| (d) spears: - |
[indecipherable] butt |
shaft |
barb |
| (i) Kwè-án |
very long-lightwood |
very short-hardwood |
quartz-teeth on either side of shaft tips
[drawing representative of description provided] |
| (ii) yérm-bá |
none |
very long lightwood or better grass-tree |
4-pronged with secondary barb
[drawing representative of description provided] |
| (iii) doo-úr |
long |
short black-palm |
iron-wood or wattle |
| (iv) woor-poy |
short lightwodd |
long black palm. wattle, or bloodwood |
" [iron-wood or wattle] |
| (v) dè-ká-rá |
same as (iii) |
same as (iii) |
stingaree-spikes on shaft tip [drawing representative of description provided] |
| (vi) tá-chál |
" [same as (iii)] |
" [same as (iii)] |
stingaree-spike fixed on end [drawing representative of description provided] |
| (vii) boo-róng-à-mó |
long grass-tree |
short wattle |
same as iii |
| (viii) ? |
long native-bamboo
(bartered from Mt [indecipherable]) |
" " [short wattle] |
" [same as iii] |
| (viiii) ? |
short lightwood |
long iron-wood |
iron-wood |
N.B. The "yermba" (for fish etc) is said to have been im-ported [imported] here originally, though it was manufactured locally certainly for some a long time, previous to the last thirteen years. No. viiii is also believed to have come from the "western" districts originally - a very heavy spear, splintering easily, and said to be the best for killing a fellow black with. The stingaree-spike mentioned above is that obtained from the near the base of the stingaree's tail. The iron-wood or wattle barb noticed in iii etc. is fixed on with fibre, or kangaroo-sinew, and then covered with grass-tree gum : a curious thing about the these wooden-barb spears in the Bloomfield etc is that the one extremity of the barb invariably forms the extreme tip of the spear. [drawing representative of description provided]
62.Art:- Pictures etc. No actual carving on [indecipherable], but on many a vertical or overhanging surface, are to be met painting representing human beings, carrowaries, turtles, kangaroos, hands etc : these are either done with charcoal (grón-jíl), pipe-clay (kúm-búr), or raddle (wó-búr).
64. Sign-Language - The expression of ideas by signs and gestures has been noticed, but so far, has not enquired into with detail.