.''(') AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL BTQNE WBAPONS and IMPLEMENTS, 



Thene figures show bow very uniform in general the size of the 

 spi'.u- heads is ; or, when there is a gradation, it is regular and 



gradual. 'Tin' eleventh specimen is rough and unfinished, and the 



twelfth is hardly worth recording in detail. 



Somewhat similar spearheads are figured from the United 

 States l.y Mr. T. Wilson, especially one with square jagged edge* 



and marginal facets.* 



Mr. Froggatt informs me that the Leonard River Blacks use 



these sjHMi- heads almost wholly in personal attaek and oneounters, 

 seldom in sporting, and that these extremely tine heads are carried 

 about unmounted, and placed in position on the spears as required. 

 They are carried in a chignon, made of emu feathers matted 

 together, and attached to the hack hair. The hair is worn long, 

 similar to that of the Cooper's Creek natives, who do it up in a 

 head net.t Inside this chignon the spear heads are wrapped in 

 paper-bark. Thanks to Mr. Froggatt 1 have much pleasure in 

 exhibiting one of these ingenious contrivances. 



The Lennard River Aborigines, like those of the Victoria River 

 described by Mr. T. B tines, and referred to in my former paper 



On similar spearheads, place themselves in a squatting position 

 when preparing these weapons, and use the ball of one of their 

 great toes as a cushion, against which the stone to be chipped is 

 placed and then struck. 



In addition to the foregoing, Mr. r-Yoggatt has also brought a 

 curious stone weapon which appears to be a partially prepared 

 spear head of a rather different type (PI. IV., tig. 1). A small 

 transversely elongated and roughly rounded piece of black lami- 

 nated jasperoid clay stone, arched on one side, and flat, or a little 

 concave on the other, has been roughly chipped along the arched 

 sides producing irregular eonchoidal facets. The weapon is three 

 and a half inches long, and one inch wide at the base. The 

 flattened under surface has not been worked at all, but presents 

 the naturally worn surface of the stone. The central line of the 



* A study of Pr«Ma&orio Anthropology. — Bandbook for Beginners. ^'.^ 

 yat. Mat. Report, 1887 88, p. 688, f. 1% 

 + A. W, Howitt in Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria, 1S7S. ii., p. 801. 



