6 KECORDS OF TUE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



to the circumference.* The circular incised sculpture is very 

 common on many petroglyphs, particularly in America, such as 

 Bald Friar Rock, in Maryland ; Girao, in Brazil ; Cipreses, in 

 Ohili, and on the Colorado River, Utah,! and it is certainly 

 curious to find this form of ornamentation whether on implements, 

 us pictographs on the walls of Cave-shelters, or as petroglyphs, 

 so widely distributed. It is curious and even startling to find 

 the close general resemblance there is between this circular and 

 spiral incised ornament on our Black's weapons, and in their 

 Cave-shelters, and those curious petroglyphs found in odd quarters 

 of the globe, and known as "cup-sculptures," Vjoth with and 

 without a radial groove. Many of these were described by the 

 late Mr. George Tate, occurring on Northumbrian (England) 

 rocks, both circles and ovals, mostly with a radial groove. | Mr. 

 Tate regarded them as the work of a Celtic race, and "symbolical 

 most probably of a religious nature." Dr. B. Seemann has 

 figured precisely similar closed concentric circles from the rock 

 surfaces in Veraguas, New Granada, and believes them to have 

 been produced by a very ancient people of that country, and to 

 be "symbols full of meaning" to those who executed them. 



I have lately seen a number of single circles on the petroglyphs 

 of the Hawkesbuiy country around Narabine Lagoon, between 

 ]Manly and Pittwater, both separately incised and forming portions 

 of compound figures. 



A SPEAR WITH INCISED ORNAMENT from ANGELDOOL, 

 NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By R. Etheridge, Junr., Curator. 



A remarkably ornamented spear has been received from 

 Angeldool, on the Narran River, by Dr. James C. Cox, who has 

 been kind enough to present it to the collection. It is made 

 from a sapling of light coloured hardwood, eleven feet nine inches 

 long and two and a-half inches in its greatest circumference, 

 tapering at both ends to a point. Unlike a very large number 



* Loc. cit., t. 13. 



fMallary; 10th Rep., Bureau Ethnol., U.S., 1893, pp. 86, 120, 153, 160. 



X Tate ; Authrop. Review, iii., p. 293. 



