BY R. ETHERIDGE, JUNR. 703 



the breadth of the boomeranos, whether at the apices or in the 

 middle, are known in the Boulia District as "handle-marks" 

 (tin-ja miiuj-ka-ru). A description of the interstitial figures 

 ■occurring on these boomerangs is also given, but those only that 

 need be referred to here are the crosses on fig. 1. Similar crosses 

 in the Boulia District are called "cross-cuts" (irer-lioo ), and are 

 identical with those on the thighs of near male relatives in times 

 of mourning. 



In both the boomerangs now figured, applying Dr. Roth's facts, 

 we observe the central portions occupied by the "mountain-top" 

 •or "fishing-net marks." One only (fig. 1) bears "handle-marks," 

 whilst the other (fig. 2) exhibits "cross-cuts." 



The other weapons sent me by Mr. Boyd are allied to a series 

 I figured in the "Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie,"* 

 and variously known under the names of Lcuigeel, JSLarpangye, 

 Burroong, Coopin^ or Bendi, according to the form and locality of 

 the weapon, and in my opinion all derived from one and the same 

 •original conception. The type is distributed in one or another of 

 these forms from the south-east districts of South Australia, 

 through Victoria, Eastern N.S. Wales as far north as the Tweed 

 and Nambucra Rivers, and then again crops up in the Herbert 

 River District, Queensland, where it was met with under the 

 name of Bendi by the Swedish traveller Lumholtz. 



The interesting point, however, in connection with these 

 weapons is that one is like the Bendi of Lumholtz, and the other 

 unlike the latter, or any of the intermediate forms, but agrees 

 with the Marjoangye of Encounter Bay, S.A. 



Lumholtz's Bendi consists of a very long handle, with the head, 

 or l^lade, comparatively flat, sharp along the margins, and curving 

 gracefully outwards and upwards to an obtuse point, without any 

 marked degree of enlargement.! The Marpangge, on the con- 

 trary, is a much rougher and more formidable looking weapon, 

 and consists of a long straight handle with a short, stout, 

 •expanded, emu-head shaped blade, inclined slightly downwards to 



* Bd. X. 1897. pi. 3. 

 t Among Cannibals, ISOO, p. 234, figs. 



