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28. In the Rockhampton District, nullas are were usually
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26. The nulla-nulla is not so much a hand implement as a throwing implement, ie. it is used more for throwing at short distances than for hitting at close quarters, and is very often employed in hunting wallaby, Kangaroo, etc. Its manufacture is [short] gradually dying out in the Boulia District where it is not employed for purposes of barter, though it is still was (1897) pretty common along and to the north of the Leichardt-Selwyn Ranges. It is made from "gidyea" (Acacia homalophylla, F.v.M.), coloured black with charcoal grease, and measures up to about two feet in length. The distal extremity is enlarged and tapers to a point. A good one is usually incised with some circular bands at the proximal end, and to with a longitudinal fluting which reacches either to the tip or ceases abruptly about an inch from it. The Pitta-Pitta [B]lacks speak of it as mor-ro: the Maitakali call it ma-ro. This type of weapon (Fig. 51) is mos common throughout the whole of north Queensland, 1 as well as the central [D]istricts, and was to be met among the old Brisbane [B]lacks. In shape it is comparable with the wooden mallet of the Wellesley Islands*
27. On the Tully River, there are, in addition to the common type just mentioned, a two-pronged variety Known as wirka, as well as globular and a decorative (pine-apple) pattern, all more or less identical with those to be observed in the Rockhampton [D]istrict (Figs 55, 52, 54.). The pineapple type (Fig. 54) have on occasion [been] seen on in the peninsula and Eastern coast[l]ine, Lumholtz figures xx it from Herbert Vale and Petrie f describes it from Brisbane: [C]onsidering its limitation to the extreme north and to the coast-line, and its [?] a New Guinea