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forms the butt, and the chisel edge the cutting portion. The 

 former is exposed from the gum mounting, and probably served 

 the purpose of a hammer. The lashing in this instance seems to 

 be string, and is thickly coated with gum. The chisel is five and 

 a-half inches long, and the handle one foot three inches. 



The horse-shoe iron and the chisel are not confined by a collar 

 holding the two halves of the handle together, but are held in 

 position as described by string and gum. Neither of the handles 

 is tied at the base, similar to the method of doubly securing some 

 of those of stone tomahawks.* 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 

 Plate xxix. 



Fig. 1.— Tomahawk (oblong-ovate type), highly finished, of greenish-black 

 diorite. Braidwood ; Mr. J. W. Penney. J nat. 



Fig. 2. — Side view of the same. 



Fig. 3.— Tomahawk (oblong-ovate type), flaked, of silicified claystone. 

 New England ; Mining and Geological Museum (Mr. Blomfield). 



Fig. 4. — Side view of the same. 



Plate xxx. 



Fig. 1.— Tomahawk (ovate type), of a felspathic quartzite. Macleay 



Collection. 

 Fig. 2. — Side view of the same. 

 Fig. 3.— Tomahawk (deltoid type), of dark green diabase (?) Normanton, 



Queensland ; Queensland Museum (Mr. C. W. De Vis). 

 Fig. 4. — Side view of same. 



Plate xxxi. 



Fig. 1. — Tomahawk (gad-shaped type), of a dark green diorite. N. S. 



Wales ; Mining and Geological" Museum. 

 Fig. 2. — Side view of the same. 



Fig. 3. — Tomahawk with a hafting groove (ovate type). North Queens- 

 land ; Queensland Museum (Mr. C. W. De Vis). 

 Fig. 4. — Side view of the same. 



* See Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I., p. 367, f. 179, p. 368, f. 181. 





