300 THREE ADDITIONAL TYPES OF WOMERAH, 



THREE ADDITIONAL TYPES OF WOMERAH OR 

 " THRO WING-STICK." 



By R. Etheridge, Junr. 



(Palaeontologist to the Australian Museum, and Geological 

 Survey of N. S. Wales.) 



(Plate XIV.) 



I am indebted to Mr. Harry Stockdale for an opportunity of 

 describing three types of Womerab, additions to those already 

 figured in the Proceedings of this Society. 



It will be remembered that I described a rigid lath-like weapon 

 from Agate Creek, a tributary of the Gilbert River, north-eastern 

 Australia,* devoid of any transversely flattened surface for a spear 

 rest. At the hinder end of this womerah was mounted the usual 

 spear-peg, and at the fore end two pieces of Melo shell ad])ressed 

 together. 



The first of the three weapons now to be described corresponds 

 in shape, thickness, rigidity, and position of the spear-peg with 

 the Agate Creek throwing-stick, but in place of the pieces of 

 adpressed shell at the proximal end is another peg, formed of two 

 pieces of flattened wood, one placed on either side of the stick, 

 and held in position against its sides by black gum-cement. At 

 the hinder end there is only just sufficient cement to hold the 

 spear-peg in its place, but the fore or proximal end of the weapon 

 has been wrapped round with some kind of fabric and the cement 

 smeared over its surface for a S[)ace of four inches, as well as 

 enveloping the additional double peg. The surface of the cement 

 and fabric is much roughened, as if some other foreign body had 

 been wrenched off". It may be that the surface of the gum-cement 

 has merely peeled off" or been removed by fracture, or, on the 



* P.L.S.N.S.W. 1891, V. (2), p. 701. 



