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Good nullas should show the fine fluting caused by the stone chisel, 

 and all possess handle-marks to prevent the implement slipping. 

 Of late years, some of these weapons have been (?) improved by 

 the addition of horse-shoe nails stuck into the distal extremity. 

 In the neighbourhood of Rockhampton itself the Tarumbul had a 

 word — barkel (=any stick or handle) — to express all these 

 varieties of nulla collectively. To the following short description 

 of each the Tarumbal name is attached : — 



(a) The distal or free extremity progressively enlarges, to end 

 finally in a gradually tapering point (PI. lxi., fig. G), and is the 

 commonest of the seiies. The .smaller kinds are called barkal, 

 the larger tindil. 



(!>) The weapon gradually enlarges from the handle-end to the 

 globular extremity, this knob being either distinct from or 

 merged into the shaft (PI. lxi., figs. 7, 8). Known as tanda. 



(c) The head of the implement is girdled, the girdle being sub- 

 sequently cut into from two to five rows of squares, hy means of 

 transverse and longitudinal incisions (PI. lxi., fig. 9) ; it is called 

 a nil-li. For decorative purposes, I have here and there seen 

 one of these weapons with two opposite sides of the girdle shaved 

 down to the general surface level and then coloured red and white 

 respectively. 



(d) Cut out on the same general lines as the common barkal, 

 but having the distal end fissured into two, three (PI. lxi., fig. 10) 

 or four prongs. It varies from twenty-eight and u half to 

 thirty-one inches in length. Called tambara or yambara. 



(e) The distal extremity is in the shape of a more or less beak- 

 like projection (PI. lxi., fig. 11); sometimes there may be two of 

 these "beaks" (PI. lxi., tig. 12) opposite to one another, while 

 occasionally there may lie found an intermediate third or fourth 

 When decorated, the implement often has the beaks coloured 

 white, and the intervening bases raddled. Called yu-lun. 



(f) A form only made apparently by the Karun-burra Blacks of 

 the Upper Fitzroy River, etc., but not within recent years. As 

 compared with the commonest type, the " head " is defined from 

 the shaft by a distinct ledge, and its tip tapers far more abruptly 

 (PI. lxi., fig. 13). A specimen which I obtained in 1897 47 was 

 twenty six and a half inches long. 



(g) The distal extremity is in the form of a curve flattened 

 from side to side. It is said to have been cut from the flange of 



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