332 EXPLORATION OF ABORIGINAL ROCK-SHELTERS. 



In dealing with a race so little advanced as the Australians, it 

 is necessary to i-emember that each of their few implements, 

 utensils, or ornaments, may have been at times put to several 

 different uses. The wommera, for instance, is used not only for 

 propelling spears, but sometimes as a fire stick, a music stick, 

 with a piece of quartz fastened to one end as a knife or chisel, 

 and even as a digging stick. So this bone may have once been 

 useful as well as ornamental.* 



Vide A. W. Howitt in Brough Smyth, Joe. cif. Vol. ii. p. ^0'2. 



