BY R. ETHERIDGE, JUN. 701 



the greatest width five inches. The weight varies from seven and 

 three-quarter ounces to ten ounces."* 



The woraerah from Agate Creek, a tributary of the Gilbert 

 River, and the subject of the present notice, was obtained by Dr. 

 John Storer, and its genuineness thereby attested. It is two feet 



ten and a half inches in length, one and a quarter inches in 

 breadth, but only three-eights of an inch in thickness, wholly 

 in the same plane, flat at the sides, and sharp and ridge-like above 

 and below, with hardly any perceptible decrease in breadth 

 towards either end. The weight is eight ounces, and the weapon 

 is quite rigid and well polished. The hinder end is obliquely 

 cut off, and against it is fitted a well made peg of hard dark 

 wood, attached by black gum-cement and sinews, and taking the 

 place of the kangaroo tooth. At the proximal or fore end, 

 against each of the flat sides of the womerah, is affixed, with gum- 

 cement, portions of the shell of Melo diadema. The peg is one 

 and three-quarter inches long, and the portion of shell two inches. 



This weapon is a very peculiar type of womerah, owing to its 

 rigid lath-like form and the absence of any flattened transverse 

 surface similar to several of those figured by Eyre and Smyth. The 

 pieces of shell at the fore end take the place of the lump of gum, 

 or gum and stone, in the more southern types. The sides of the 

 throwing-stick are quite plain and uncarved, but smooth and well 

 polished. The substitution of shell for gum alone at the fore end is 

 evidently not of common occurrence. 



On showing the Agate Creek womerah to my Colleague Mr. 

 John Brazier, he was at once struck with its resemblance to 

 throwing-sticks obtained at Cape Grenville, North-East Australia, 

 during the progress of the " Chevert Expedition;" and referred me 

 for other examples to the Macleay Museum. Therein I saw, 



* Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i., p. 338. 



