702 FURTHER CARVED BOOMERANGS, &c., 



very much shallower. Like the former and generall}' similar 

 boomerang from Mr. Boyd, it is a modification of section (g) in 

 my classification of this weapon.* The sub-mucronate apices are 

 divided off from the remainder of the surface by cross-bars. 

 The incisions in the central line of ovals are longitudinal, those of 

 the marginal festoons are either slightly oblique to the longer 

 axis of the weapon or angled to follow the outline of each festoon. 



The second boomerang (fig. 2) is of the same type, in so far 

 that the incised figures consist of lenticular ovals, two series, one 

 on each flank of the convex surface, with marginal scalloping, the 

 intermediate portion of the surface carrying ordinary St. Andrew's 

 crosses. There are no cross-bars at the apices, but there is a 

 broad transverse median band, with both longitudinal, longi- 

 tudinal-oblique and transverse-oblique grooving, the last occupy- 

 ing a central and limited area on the band. The grooving of the 

 two central rows of ovals is longitudinal, but that of the lateral 

 festoons is oblique. 



In his recently published work,t Dr. W. E. Roth has afforded 

 an explanation of many of the figures found on carved boomerangs. 

 The following facts are taken from this most excellent work : — 

 The marginal festoons or scallopings are found only on weapons 

 made in and to the south of the Boulia District, West Central 

 Queensland. The lenticular or shuttle-shaped figures, when filled 

 with more or less longitudinal lines are called by some of the 

 blacks of the Boulia District " mountain-tops " (mol-lo-roj, by 

 others they are said to represent the large fishing nets folded up 

 for transit, and are called " fishing-net marks" ( ma-U viing-Jca-ra). 

 On the other hand, in the Cloncurry District, these shuttles, when 

 the infilling lines are strictly longitudinal, are known as "leaves" 

 (nin-ja-la), but when the incised lines ai-e oblique or slant-wise, 

 they are called " white shell marks" (clie-ka-ra). The transverse 

 incisions, which I have invariably alluded to as cross-bars, across 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1894, ix. {2), Pt. 2, p. 19S. 

 t Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland 

 Aborigines (8° Brisbane, 1897), pp. 144-145. 



