38 AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STONE WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS, 



to afford a good grip to the cementing medium, portions of which 

 still remain. It is six and three-eighths inches long, by one and 

 two-eighths wide, with an acute apex. The median angular line 

 is very acute, but at the base a large chip has been taken out of it 

 (PI. vi., fig. 3). One of the flesh-coloured heads, the shorter and 

 broader, has a similar piece flaked off, but the longer of the two 

 bears a narrow longitudinal facet, extending almost the whole 

 length of the weapon, whilst at the apex there is a small supple- 

 mentary triangular facet, and a larger one at the base. The 

 cutting edges of all are sharp, but those of the felsite spear-head 

 are naturally sharper ; they are not strictly parallel edged in 

 either, but there is a slightly flexuous or curved outline, which 

 throws the apex more or less to one side, and renders it excentric 

 to some extent. This curved appearance is well illustrated by 

 Smyth in the case of a " knife" from the Paroo River,* the base 

 of which is wrapt in 'possum fur, but otherwise the resemblance 

 to our spear-heads is very strong. 



A glance will at once show how different these are to the 

 Kimberley spear-heads of glass and varieties of quartz, but of the 

 general type of the small head of black jasperoid claystone 

 obtained by Mr. Froggatt. In fact, the latter and the three spear- 

 heads now under discussion will probably form a separate section 

 in the classification of Australian stone spear-heads lately proposed 

 by me,f between Nos. 2 and 3, and may be defined thus : — 



No. 2a. Double-edged, three-faced, elongately-lanceolate, slightly curved 

 heads, with a more or less entire margin. Nicholson River and Settlement 

 Creek, North-west Carpentaria 



At the same time their resemblance to the flesh-coloured axe- 

 heads from "North Queensland"! must not be forgotten any more 

 than in the case of the small Kimberley spear-head of jasperoid 

 claystone. A comparison with these renders it clear that these 

 spear-heads are rather longer weapons, more slender for their size, 

 and with the somewhat curved lateral margins, which do not exist 

 in the axe-heads. 



* Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i., p. 380, f. 201. 



+ Records Geol. Survey N. S. Wales, 1890, n., Pt. 2, p. 65. 



t Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, 1890, v., Pt. 2, p. 368, pi. 12, f. 14. 



