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FURTHER CARVED BOOMERANGS, AND TWO 



VARIETIES OF THE LANGEEL FROM 



NORTH QUEENSLAND. 



By R. Etheridge, Junr., Curator of the Australian Museum, 



Sydney. 



(Plates XX. -XXI.) 



I am again indebted to Mr. J. A. Boyd, of Ripple Creek, near 

 Ingham, N.Q., for an opportunity of describing two further 

 incised boomerangs, and two varieties of the Lcmgeel, one 

 resembling the Marpciiigye and the other the Bendi. 



Both boomerangs are small weapons, much smaller than the 

 generality of those with incised surfaces, being only twenty-one 

 and a half inches across the curve. They are slightly convex on 

 the obverse as usual and comparatively flat on the reverse, one 

 somewhat more so than the other. The apices of one are sub- 

 mucronate, those of the other obtusely pointed. The former 

 ■weapon is almost smooth on the reverse, the latter finely grooved 

 or tooled like so many of the better finished and older Aboriginal 

 weapons. 



The boomerang with the sub-mucronate apices (fig. 1) is nearly 

 of the same type as one of those formerly sent to me by Mr. 

 Boyd,* except that it is devoid of the representation of any 

 natural object. As in the figure quoted, the median line of the 

 obverse is occupied by a succession of conjoined ovals, or 

 " sausage "-like figures, with the convex and concave margins 

 scalloped, but this marginal sculpture in the present instance is 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1S97, Pt. 2, t. ii. f. 2. 



