BY R. ETHERIDGE, JUNE. 261 



The second weapon (fig. 2) is similarly ornamented, except that 

 only one line of ovals occurs along the centre of the boomerang; 

 the re-entering angles^vire without notches, and the apices are not 

 specially sculptured in any way. Between the almost median 

 line of ovals, and the half-ovals of the convex margin, and near 

 the centre of the weapon is an object apparently intended to 

 represent a tree, with two transverse grooves below in imitation 

 of the ground surface. A single long groove at right angles 

 forms the stem, and suddenly enlarges into a bottle-brush-like 

 head, terminated by a short wavy single line like the stem. The 

 latter bears on each side three sets of upwardly directed off-sets, 

 possibly intended for branches. On the flat reverse of this 

 weapon, and at one end, are incised the outlines of two guns, one 

 above the other and pointing in opposite directions, and apparently 

 intended for old-fashioned percussion pieces. 



Both boomerangs are distinct from any previously figured by 

 me, although one (fig. 2) approaches the Section (g) of my first 

 paper* on this subject. It differs, however, in the presence of a 

 natui'al object — the tree (0, and the absence of emai-ginated apices 

 and notches in the re-entering angles of the marginal scalloping. 

 The second, on the other hand, is possibly allied to Section (^) of 

 the before-mentioned paper, but tlie sculpture is bilaterally 

 symmetrical, and there is an absence of cross-bars; still neither 

 weapon can be placed in any of the sections of the paper cited, 

 and yet further tend to show the great diversit}^ of sculpture 

 existing amongst these boomerangs. 



On the different occasions when my former papers were written 

 I had not access to Mr. J. Edge-Partington's " Album,"! and was 

 therefore unable to refer to the figures therein illustrated when 

 epitomising the different patterns of boomerang ornamentation 

 known. Mr. Partington's PI. 353, fig. 2, clearly belongs to the 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1894, ix. (2), p. 198. 



t An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, and Articles of Dress 

 of the Natives of the Pacific Islands, <tc.; 3 pts. obi. Loudon, 1890-95. 



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