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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STONE 

 WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS. 



By R. Etheridge, Jun., &c. 



(Paleontologist to the Australian Museum, and Geological 

 Survey of New South Wales.) 



(Plates iv. -viii.) 



I am able to continue* investigations in this interesting subject 

 through the kindness of several collectors, notably Sir W. Macleay, 

 Dr. J. C. Cox, and Mr. C. W. de Vis, M.A., Curator of the Queens- 

 land Museum. To the first I am indebted for the loan of nine 

 stone weapons from " various parts of N. S. Wales," which were 

 exhibited at this Society's Meeting on October 31st, 1883, by 

 Mr. J. G. Griffin, C.E.f; to the second for a series of N. S. 

 Wales tomahawks in different stages of preparation ; and to Mr. 

 De Yis for a valuable selection of implements from the Queens- 

 land Museum, Brisbane. There will also be found descriptions of 

 the remainder of Mr. W. W. Froggatt's specimens from North- 

 west Australia ; some from the Mining and Geological Museum, 

 and a few others from different sources, which will be suitably 

 acknowledged later on. I am indebted to my colleague Mr. T 

 W. Edgeworth David for assistance in determining the minera- 

 logical composition of the rocks used for the weapons, but as 

 microscopic sections could not be made, the determinations are 

 tentative only. 



x. — Knives. 



(PI. v, fig. 1 ; PI. vi, fig. 1 ; PI. vii, fig. 1.) 

 Mr. De Vis has forwarded to me five knives, three of the 

 general type of those I lately described as used in the Mika 

 operation, J but differing in an important particular ; one of a 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1890, v. (2), Pt. 2, pp. 251, 289, and 367. 

 i Ibid. 1884, viii, p. 442. 

 X Loc. cit. 1890, pp. 251, 289. 



