200 HIGHLY ORNATE BOOMERANGS. 



fo) Natural objects. — These appear to be of rare occurrence. 

 Eyre figured* an object on the boomerang teimed by him Wdngn 

 or Wayigno, resembling a snake, and I have publishedf a second from 

 the Port Essington Tableland. It is also possible that another 

 figure I given in the " Macleay Memorial Volume" may represent 

 a natural object ; the outline of the figure, so far as it goes, and 

 its snout-like termination favour this view. The marginal fringe 

 of transverse lines might almost lead us to imagine this to be a 

 Millipede. 



This epitome of incised patterns is by no means intended as an 

 exhaustive one ; it simply includes those that have come within 

 the scope of my own reading. Doubtless many others are known 

 to those having a more extended knowledge of the subject than I 

 have. At the same time, the present notes may tend to call 

 attention to the wide field there is for profitable investigation in 

 this form of aboriginal weapon. 



I am indebted for the illustrations, as on former occasions, to 

 Mr. Charles Hedley, F.L.S. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XV. 



Fig. 1. — Boomerang carved over three-fourths of one surface, in the form 

 of loops returned on themselves, and each representing a drawn 

 out, and in three instances a reversed letter S. 



Fig. 2. — Boomerang carved over the whole of one surface in the form of 

 two longitudinal fluctuating figures, with a central zig-zag line. 



Fig. 3. — Boomerang, highly ornate, with a central serpentine figure, 

 marginal loops and other complex incisions. 



* Journ. Exped. Discov. Central Australia, 1845, ii. t. 3, f. 8. 



+ Macleay Mem. Vol. (Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales), 1893, p. 238, t. 32, f. 6. 



XLoc. cit. t. 32, f. 5. 



