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(b) Double line of rhombs. — Amongst his illustrations of native 

 implement sculpture, Mr. R. B. Smyth figures a double line of 

 rhombs,* but mentions no locality or district in which this pattern 

 occurs. 



(c) Treble line of rhombs, with scalloped edges. — The same 

 author also gives a representation! of this form, three lines of 

 rhombs parallel to another, not extending quite to the apices, and 

 with the edges scalloped by triangular or semi-rhombic festooning. 



(d) Single continuous zig zag pattern. — This is represented]: by 

 Mr. Angas at each end of a fighting boomerang, but the centre of 

 the illustration is left plain, whether intentionally so or not I 

 cannot say. The figures are enclosed by single lines on each side. 

 In this instance, also, the locality is wanting. 



(e) Double continuous zig-zag pattern. — Amongst Smyth's 

 illustrations already referred to this form, occur§ two parallel 

 fluctuating or zig-zag figures extending apparently the length of 

 the boomerang, and re-uniting at the apices. Unfortunately this is 

 not localised. This pattern is also given by Dr. George Bennett 

 and the Rev. G. Wood. Dr. Bennett's illustration|] represents a 

 "come-back," or recoiling boomerang, made of myrtle wood, but 

 without locality. Wood's figureU is that of a large double curved 

 weapon. Smyth states** that in the Mackay District waved lines 

 are generally employed. How far north such boomerangs extend 

 is not within my knowledge, for Dr. Creed saysff that the weapon 

 is unknown at Cape York, a fact that is confirmed by my friend 

 Mr. J. A. Thorpe, Taxidermist to the Australian Museum, who 

 resided for many months in the old days amongst the northern 

 Cape York tribes. MacGillivray even goes further and states 



* Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i. p. 285, f. 37. 



t Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i. p. 329. 



J Waugh's Australian Almanac for 1858, p. 56, f. 9. 



§ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i. p. 285, f. 37. 



II Gatherings of a Naturalist, 1860, p. 291, f. 16. 



H Nat. Hist. Man. Vol. Australia, 1870, p. 50, f. 2 (lower series). 



** Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i. p. 329. 

 tt Journ. Anthrop. Inst. (it. Brit, and Ireland, 1878, vii. p. 266. 



