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18a
This manufacture of a shield from the flanged of a tree extends southwards to below Cardwell, and northwards up to the Bloomfield [River], and is met with along the mountain ranges of the hinterland, eg. Atherton.
23. The Bloomfield weapon was somewhat more oblong and rectangular as compared with that of the Tully, and usually larger, such dimensions as 3½ x 1½ feet being not uncommon: it is however fast falling into disuse, and even so late as 1898 was only being occasionally manufactured by some of the very old men. The Bloomfield [N]atives called it Kún-juri, and used to paint it with varying designs. Although no shields are found on the Endeavour River and at Cape Bedford at the present day, the local KoKo-yirnidir [B]lacks speak of them as gorndor-e. Indeed, so far as the eastern coast-line is concerned, the Endeavour R[iver] must be regarded as the most northerly limit of the weapon.