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          4.The Pr(incess) Charl(otte) Bay, Cape Bedford, Bloomfield, and  Middle              
            Palmer R(ivers), spears may be dealt with collectively,
            with the Cape Bedford ones, about which very reliable
            information is known, on the type.  Local generic names
            for spears are: - KRA. KYI. KYE, KMI. Kalka,  *   KWA alkir.
                  following 
            All the ^  Cape Bedford spears are made of a distal
           (shaft) morticed into a proximal (butt) portion, the
            one  extremity of the barb invariably forming the very tip of the completed spear
                                                                       
[tick]     (a) Stingaree - barbed, single (Fig 4) multiple (Fig 5) with the 
             barb or barbs pointing forwards -  long proximal
             end                                                        end
               ^  of bamboo or reed, and short distal  ^  of Acacia
             holocarpa, Bsuth [?] (KYI. o-yur) or Drymophlocus Nor-
             manbyi, [?] F.v,M (KYI. do-  war, the local 'black palm').
              At Cape Bedford such spears are known as mu-lon,
              a term probably connected with the Butcher's Hill
              KYE. word mollun, a stingaree [Stingray]. On the Bloomfield, the 
                                  [?]                              here the weapon is        
              Single -barb  ^  is known as ta-chal, but  ^  built of a
              short Xanthorrhoea butt, and long [?] black palm (Acacia)
              or blood - wood shaft.  On the Middle Palmer, the 
               [?] Stingaree barbs are bartered into the district 
                                            River
               from the Musgrove  ^  on the East Coast, or from down
               the Mitchell, etc.,on the Gulf coast; they are fixed
               in multiple, and the weapon called a tikara (KMI).
               Other local names, for the single-barb variety are
                KRA. [?] rii-ang-pal;  KWA. ri-angapa; for the multiple
                barb, KRA, challawang, KWA. gu-laba.
               (b) Stingaree-barbed,multiple, with the barbs placed
                                               (fig 6)
 [tick]        one behind the other  ^  pointing backwards; long proximal
                                                   portion
                 end of reed, short distal  ^  of black palm or hard wood &
                                                                         River
                 known as dekara.  On the Bloomfield  ^  built of similar 
                 proportions and materials as the ta-chal just mentioned,
                                                    incess [?]              
                 and called dikara.  At Pr  ^  Bay. the local
                 names are KRA. to-wara, KWA. de-Kir
                                          (Fig 7)                    flake
                 (c) Quartz-tipped  ^  Pieces of quartz  ^  often now replaced
                 by [quartz] [?]  glass. fixed with cement onto opposite
                 sides of the spear-tip;  long butt and short sharft:
                 Known as Ku-yan. Same name on the Bloomfield.
                                                                                            bases
                The small white quartz flakes are [?] fixed, at their  ^  [?]
                 oppositley, like the teeth of a lady's small hair-comb:
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 [tick]       *  Strange to say, Kalka is the generic term for a spear among
                 the coastal blacks (Guranni) [?] between the Mitchell and Staaten [?]  Rivers[?] 

  
 

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