20 BOOMERANGS FROM N.S.W. AND QUEENSLAND, 



and a half rhombs placed transversely, whilst at the other is an 

 oblong enclosure, with two parallel zig-zags of a single line each. 



Length two feet five inches; breadth two and a quarter inches; 

 and w'eight eleven and a half ounces. 



From Angeldool, on the Narran River, in the collection of Dr. 

 J. C. Cox. 



In the last specimen but one (Fig. 15) runs a sub-central longi- 

 tudinal line of eleven large ovals, and along the concave and convex 

 margins respectively rows of fifteen and eighteen narrower ovals. 

 Intervening between the central row and that on the convex 

 margin at one end of the weapon is an additional row of larger 

 ovals, but this only extends for half the length of the w^eapon. 

 At each end this larger row dies off into a single zig-zag line, 

 whilst between the sub-central line of ovals and that on the con- 

 cave margin is another. All the ovals are grooved obliquely. 



Length two feet four inches; breadth two and a quarter inches; 

 and w^eight eleven ounces. 



Again from Angeldool, on the Narran Rivei', and in the 

 collection of Dr. J. C. Cox. 



The last boomerang (Fig. 16) is figured with some hesitation, 

 not as to the genuineness of the weapon itself, but of the carving; 

 the former betrays nothing out of the common. The natural 

 objects represented are a large fish in the centre, bounded by two 

 incised lines, and filled in with single diagonal lines in two 

 directions, producing a series of rhombs probably representing 

 scales. Following this, and in front of it, is a by no means bad 

 I'epresentation of a bird; below^ this again four i*hombs, one within 

 the other, followed by a nondescript object, infilled with incised 

 lines coincident with the outline; and finally at the apex a heart- 

 shaped body. It is the execution of the bird, with the appearance 

 of the nondescript and heart-shaped bodies that might raise the 

 suspicion that the carving on this weapon is not purely " black- 

 fellow." Birds, however, are by no means uncommon on the 

 highly decorated dilly-baskets of North Australia, whilst the 

 heart has on more than one occasion been observed amongst rock 

 paintings, undoubtedly the work of the Aborigines. The 



