BY H. ETHERIDCE, JUN. 37 



arched side bears traced of longitudinal facets. The apex is 

 obtuse and chipped, and the section irregularly triangular. 



If a spear-head, and I do not see any other possible interpreta- 

 tion, it is certainly different to any others I have seen from 

 Northern Australia, and will probably form a separate group, 

 following Nos. 1 and 2 in the classification given by me in the 

 first account of the Kimberley spear-heads.* At the same time 

 there is a certain resemblance between it and the fine long axe- 

 head of flesh-coloured quartzitei lately figured. f 



xii. — Spear-heads from Settlement Creek and Nicholson River. 

 (PI. iv., figs. 2 and 3.) 



Tiie three spear-heads now to be noticed are a part of the 

 Queensland Museum Collection forwarded to me by Mr. De Vis. 

 Two are made of a semi-granular flesh-coloured quartzite,| similar 

 to but coarser than the knife first described from the Gregory 

 River, and perhaps more akin to the stone of the axes from 

 "North Queensland," in the Australian Museum. Both these 

 spear-heads have still adhering to their bases portions of the gum 

 used in mounting. One of them is six and three-quarter inches 

 long, by one and a quarter wide ; the other is shorter, six and a 

 quarter long, and broader, being one and five-eighths wide. The 

 section is triangular, flat, or partially concave on one facp, acutely 

 angular and sharp in the middle line on the other, tapering to a 

 moderately acute apex. 



The third spear-head is composed of a dark chocolate felsite 

 with flesh-coloured orthoclase, and is slightly enlarged at the base 



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

 + Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1890, v. (2;, Pt. 3, PI. 12, f. 14. 

 % The blacks near the Daly River, Arnheim's Land, are said by A. C. 

 Gregory to possess spears formed of reeds with "large heads of white 

 Bands tone" (Journal* of Australian Exploration, by A. C. and F. T 

 Gregory, 1884, p. 158, 8vo, Brisbane). It is possible that this rock may 

 be similar to the quartzite deseribed above. The use of the white man's 

 materials for aboriginal weapons is again illustrated in the case of spear- 

 heads. In the Queensland Court of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 

 1880 were righting spears from the Ktheridge River, pointed and barbed 

 with pieces of telegraph wire, exhibited by Mr. W. Samwell, the Warden 

 at Georgetown. 



