112 ON AN ABORIGINAL IMPLEMENT. 



reception of the blade. The Australian Blacks were quite 

 unacquainted with the art of hafting by drilling, union between 

 any two parts of their weapons or implements being always 

 effected by grasping or tying and cementing. A very excellent 

 illustration of this is on record. General Pitt-Rivers (Col. A. 

 Lane-Fox) states* that at an old native camping place, a European 

 axe-head was found, the hole of which the natives, unable to com- 

 prehend its object, had carefully filled with their cementing 

 medium, and hafted by means of a withy, bent round the outside 

 of the axe-head, in accordance with their traditional custom. 



* Report Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1872 [1873], p. 160. 



