NORTH QUEENSLAND ETHNOGRAPHY. 



Bulletin No. 13. 



FIGHTING WEAPONS. 1 



By Walter E. Roth, Magistrate of the Poineroon District, 

 British Guiana ; late Chief Protector of Aborigines, Queens- 

 land ; Corresponding Member of the Anthropological 

 Societies of Berlin and Florence, the Anthropological Insti- 

 tute, London, etc. 



(Plates lviii.-lxi.; Fig. 12.) 



Contents. 



Sect. I. Spears:— 190 



2. North -West and Lower Gulf Districts 190 



3. Pennefather River Districts .. ... ... ... 11)1 



4. Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape Bedford, Bloomtield 



River, and Palmer River ... ... ... ... 192 



5. Lower Tully River District 194 



6. Rockhampton District ... ... ... ... ... 195 



7. Brisbane ,, .. 196 



8. Spear-throwers ( VVommeras) : — ... ... ... ... 197 



9. Pennefather River District ... ... ... ... 197 



10. Palmer and Laura Rivers ... ... ... ... 19S 



11. Cape Bedford, Endeavour and Bloomtield Rivers ... 199 



12. Princess Charlotte Bay ... 200 



13. Lower Tully River ... 200 



14. North-West Districts -200 



15. Boomerangs: — ... ... . . ... ... ... ... 201 



10. Lower Tully River 201 



17. Mackay District 202 



is. Kockhampton District ... ... ... ... ... 202 



19. Brisbane ,, .. 203 



20. North-West and Lower Gulf Districts 203 



21. Shields — Peninsula and North-West Districts : — ... 203 



22. Tully River and Card well Districts 204 



23. Bloomtield and Endeavour Rivers ... ... ... 205 



24. Rockhampton District ... ... ... ... ... 20.3 



25. Brisbane ,, .. 206 



26. Throwing-stieks (Nulla Nullas)— North -West Districts; — 207 



27. Tully River 207 



2S. Rockhampton District ... ... .. ... 207 



29. Brisbane ,, 209 



30. Fighting-Poles 209 



31. Two-handed Swords 209 



32. Single-handed Swords 210 



33. Manner of Fighting— Inter-tribal .. 210 



34. ,, ,, Individual .. 211 



1 Dr. Roth, when transmitting his MS., requested that the details of a 

 few implements in his collection left undescribed, might be added ; thes 

 are now incorporated and distinguished by being placed within brackets 

 -(Ed.) 



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