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12. At Princess Charlotte Bay, the wommera is made of iron-wood. The Blade is longer that at Cape Bedford etc, wide at the centre, narrower at the handle, with the shell-haft fixed at any angle, obtuse or acute. The long peg is flattened at its attachment; if drilled it is only partly covered with cement, if tied on it is wholly covered. Local names: KRA. bo-un, KWA. alvau-ul. North-west of Pr[incess] Charl[otte] Bay, the KoKo-olKulo type of spear thrower is comparatively short and wide, almost leaf-bladed with a long peg: this peg is made of "beef-wood", and tied on, not drilled, its back being covered withbeef-wood (Grevillea) cement. With this kind of wommera a very short spear, about 6 [six] feet long is employed.
13. On the lower Tully R[iver] the spear-thrower, used with the bangKai spear, is called charin (= nasal septum) from its flatness: [This is] a long thin lath with two holes drilled at its extremity, and the peg (MA: Kom) tied on with small strips of 'lawyer-cane' (Calamus, sp.).
14. In the North-western Districts I have nothing to add to the descriptions of spear-throwers already given*, except to but must draw attention to a very primitive form of implement Fig met with in the Wellesley Islands, and on the adjoining mainland in the neighbourhood of Burketown, Illustrated in (Fig. 2.4)** It is cut out of one piece
Two other types it is true are occasionally to be found in the area around Burketown, but they are certainly not of local manufacture, theyre being brought in from the eastward. *** there are the
* [Roth] - Ethnological Studies, [etc. 1897] Sect. 253. Note the small projection on the edge of the blade at the distal extremity illustrated in Fig. 369 of the same work.
** Type in general figured by Luscham - Bestian - Festschrift, 1896, pl. ix, fig. 9 (Ed.)
*** Westward (Ed.)