BY R. ETHERIDGE, JUNE. 21 



boomerang is the pi'operty of Mr. Norman Hardy, and is from 

 Queensland. 



Figs. 2 to -t are obviously after the type of the ornamented 

 boomerangs from the Bulloo River, figured by myself,* differing 

 merely in minor details; the loop pattern is here paramount. I 

 think it very possible also that the sculpture fore-shadowed on a 

 boomerang from Queensland, figured by Smyth, f is only this 

 pattern in an incomplete state. Knight figures | a boomerang 

 exhibited at the Philadelphia International Exhibition, said in 

 the same breath to be both from N.S. Wales and Victoria, and 

 bearing those serpentine figures that are probably of the same 

 nature. 



Figs. 1 and 7. — ^The half-loops do not correspond to any 

 previously published illustrations known to me. The weapon 

 represented by Fig. 6 is to some extent allied in its pattern to 

 another figured by Smyth,§ from Rockingham Bay, that from 

 Coomooboolaroj gi^'en by Lumholtz,|| and one of those from the 

 Alligator River Tableland, figured b}^ myself in the Macleay 

 Memorial Volume,'^ except that Fig. 6 is wanting in the marginal 

 festoon work and possesses an additional row of ovals. Fig. 15 

 also stands in much the same relation. 



The pattern of the broken boomerang, Fig. 8, again corresponds 

 to one from the Bulloo River.** 



The remainder of the figures are not related to any published 

 forms so far as I know. Broken zig-zag double lines, as in Figs. 1, 

 7, 8, 15, lire, are by no means uncommon on aboriginal weapons, 

 whilst crosses are very uncommon (see Fig. 11). For instance a 

 Bull-roarer, figured by Angas, from S. Australia, and called 

 Wvmmari, is decorated in this manner. 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1894, ix. (2), t. 15, f. 1. 



t Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, i., p. 285, f. 37. 



X Smithsonian Ann. Report for 1879 [1880], p. 227, f. 28, lower tig. 



§ Smyth, loc. cit. p. 329, f. 112. 



;! Among Cannibals, 1890, p. 51, f. b. 



^ t. .32, f. 3. 



** Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1894, ix (2), t. 10, f. 2. 



