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settlers,being then obtainable at no less [xxx?]
letters a distance than 9 or 10 miles from the township.
The first is a 'rose-wood' one obtained in Rock-
e
hampton from Westwood aborigin [es] It has
ches
a flattened expanded head 20 in ^ long and
ches
do 3 in ^ wide, sloping in a graceful curve to a
slender point, each side being carved into
(Fig.11)
V [tick] four barbs ^ from this enlargement, which has
been raddled, the diameter of the shaft pro-
gressively diminishes to the butt where it abruptly
tapers off. The second, from same locality,
with tip similarly flattened, has five [xxx?] barbs
(Fig.12)
V [tick] but only on the one edge ^ the shaft is peculiar
in that it progressively increases down to the butt
The third example, believed to have come originally
from the Marlborough District is of the [Co----?]
acicular type, but bears a barb cut out of
the wood itself, the tip of the weapon not being
flattened (Fig.13).
\/ [tick]
7. The Brisbane Blacks * had three kinds of spears,all of
them simple is of one single piece, and thrown by hand only
[F.i.rh ?]
(a) The [xxx?] pi-lar was made from Eucalyptuc [crebra ?]
(local ' iron-bark: the tandur [?] of the local natives). They
would pick out a young straight-grained tree, one
[do?] that would split well, climb up to 10 or 11 feet, cut
a transverse notch above [xxx ?] deep in, then two
vertical ones reaching down from it, a transverse
one below according to the length they wanted, and
split it off. Then gradually trimmed it down to
the size required. They then [spoke-shaved?] it with
Mytilus
a fresh-water [xxx?] shell (mainlandesr) or [Donax ?]
valos [valve?] * (coastal ones), smoothed it down with a piece
of broken shell, which was subsequently replaced by glass,
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Note [per]
* from ^ T.Petrie *Sect.2B. Bull [7- ?]
Roth