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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[?]