234 RECORDS OF THE AUSTWALIAN MUSEUM. 



enumerated as follows : — (1) 8tone points ; (2) Flakes (knives), in 

 seven vai-ieties of single-edged, ridged, flat and polygonal, lanceo- 

 late, broad, serrated and trimmed ; (3) Spearlieads of a type 

 which seems to be restricted to a narrow coastal belt ; (4) Chisels ; 

 (5) Gouges ; (6) Awls ; (7) Scrajaers, divided into eleven distinct 

 varieties; (8) Hammers; (9) Anvils; (10) Fabricators; (11) 

 Cores. 



Mr. Brough 8mytli- ga\e tlie following account as to the 

 use of stone implements : — "The Western Australians use small 

 splinters of quartz for making the long deep cuts which may be 

 seen on almost every native — both men and women — across the 

 breast and arms, with a similar fragment stuck to the end of a 

 stick they dress and cut their kangaroo skins in preparing them 

 for use as cloaks. They also stick thin splinters of quartz, broken 

 by their teeth, to the side of a slutrt stick to serve as a saw." 



II. — Desckiption of Localities. 



During the early part of the year 1899, in wandering over the 

 northern end of the sandhills at Maroubra, the attention of one of 

 us (T.W.) was attracted by sundry Hint chips. Having found 

 many flints of various kinds on the Lancashire and Yorkshire 

 moorlands, these flakes were at once recognised as haA'ing been 

 made by man. On i-eaching the sunmiit of the sandhill, a strange 

 feature presented itself, instead of the usual bare waste of sand, 

 the whole surface was studded with butts of Banksia trees two or 

 three feet high, and one or two feet in diameter. The inter- 

 vening spaces were covered with a scrubby growth, c(.)nsisting of 

 the stems and roots of various plants, many of which wei'e 

 standing Pandanus-like, having the roots covered with lime from 

 a (juarter to half-an-inch thick. Whilst the interiors of the lime 

 tubes were lined with a thin cylinder of bark, in other parts the 

 bark cylinders were standing alone without the calcareous 

 envelope. The whole area appeared like a miniature skeleton 

 f Oldest, of black and white stems and roots. 



The ground between was strewn with thousands of st(jnes that 

 had been used by the Aborigines for some purpose or other, and 

 had all been taken to the top of the sandhills, many of tlie stones 

 being fjuite foreign to the district. Here would be found a patch 

 of black flint chips about a yard in diameter, there another of 

 I'ed or yellow jasper, just as if the native artist in stone-working 



Brougli Smjtli — Aborigines of Victoria, ii., 1878. app., p. 520. 



